#i think he would like that (-:

[bonestrewncrest]

weremere drawings again because he is chewing and gnawing on the folds of my brain and i cant stop thinking about him. inspiration taken from gelada monkeys for this iteration of his design, especially in the way he folds his upper lip over his nose. i imagine he sounds like that one scene from the thing 1982 when bennings is sitting in the snow as the thing and everyone is surrounding him. he fills my heart with soo much love and i hope i will be able to convey his character arc as well as i want to in my fic

[jessicanjpa]

Hello! I've been reading your blog and have working my way through your stories for a while now and I love everything so far.

I wanted to hear your thoughts on this: why do you think Alice and Edward are so close? I think it's interesting that out of all his siblings, Alice seems to be the one he's closest to.

Thank you so much and keep up the great work!

Hey there, thank you for loving Tale of Years! 😊

Edward and Alice's friendship definitely got a head start since Alice saw that they would be close and/or decided she needed them to be close. Edward never stood a chance of being anything but her BFF.

But even without that element, I think they would still be just as close because of their gifts. They just... get each other in a way that no one else does. Nobody else hears voices that aren't there or sees things that aren't there—they both have a whole other world inside their minds that they have to juggle with the real word around them. They both know lots of secrets about everyone, even when they don't want to. They've devised a whole secret way of talking to each other without saying a single word out loud. They're the first line of defense for the family, always on the lookout for potential dangers.

And gifts aside, they're just a good match friendship-wise. The height difference is fun, Alice's sharp wit can always soften Edward's bad moods, and they look out for each other. Their balance of merciless teasing and comfy alliance is made even sweeter by the balance in their personalities and their attitudes toward life in general. Then you add their gifts back in and now the cute BFFs are also a secret club.

So where does this leave poor Jasper? He's gifted too, and in some ways he bears the same burden as the others: all three of them no doubt wish they could turn off their gifts sometimes, and they all have to deal with the fact that their gifts are invasive of everyone's privacy. But he's also keenly aware of Alice and Edward's closeness and feels left out sometimes. That had to be difficult at first, even if his gift 100% reassured him that Alice and Edward had only sibling-y love for each other—especially since he had Alice all to himself before joining the family (minus time with Peter/Charlotte, though not in Tale of Years, oops—but even that was with another couple). It also probably made him feel like more of an outsider at first since Alice's gift allowed her to settle into the family so quickly, especially with Edward.

I imagine it's rarely a problem these days, though there could be an occasional conflict over it. Once Jasper got used to the weirdness, his unease probably just settled into envy that Edward can be intimate with Alice in a way he can't. Eventually, even that became normal.

At least he can hang out with Bella now when Alice and Edward are off in their own little mental world. But now Jasper is envious in a new way because Bella has already learned how to let Edward into her mind, whereas there's nothing that will let Jasper into Alice's.

[fallen--leafs]

✨;

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[itsdabatt]

happy national impersonate your favorite vigilante day to those who celebrate

Part 2

[millidew]

his change in career has captivated me

bonus:

[doctorsiren]

Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[chloesimaginationthings]

Pomni and Gummigoo reunite in TADC!

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

snuggling in the sun...

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[thelostmoongazer]

Undivided attention

[everwalldigan]

Bruce being a toxic boy mom when it comes to nightwing will never not be funny as fuck he is literally the biggest nightwing defender one bad word against him and the next day he’ll show up at ur house

Bonus:

[sluttypatrickstar]

i cannot fucking believe i am wheeling this out again

[brainrotcharacters]

the easy grip on the knife. the leg over the seat. the hand over the other seat. the sassy "come get it" move. you know the bitch is smiling behind that mask even as he said the line.