#let me repeat that

[mayhasopinions]

what in the lgbt even was this scene (see tags for discussion)

[eclysia]

..uh oh.

[pinkieloveheartpastel]

(NO TERFS ALLOWED ON THIS POST. MAN-JUICE ACTIVATE!!!)

tw: misogyny, slut-shaming, patriarchy

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People who slut shame female-presenting people (Yeah, you damn right I said that instead of women, cause women can look like anyone. Fight me.) for not “covering themselves up” are basically saying that a female-presenting body is something to be ashamed of. That if a woman is proud of her body, loves her body, and wants to show it off to herself, and feels confident, that there’s “obviously” something “inherently wrong” with her.

And since we were raised in a society that paints female-presenting bodies as taboo, people really believe in the misogynistic bullshit that they spew, and it’s very sad. People really vomit that shit out like it’s truth, because they know nothing else besides what they’ve been told, and they can’t think outside of what they’ve been told. And, in the end, they help to strengthen the patriarchal, body-shaming, repressive society that we live in.

Slut-shaming female-presenting people is simply supporting the status quo. Which is they are bad. They are evil. Their bodies are inherently evil, disgusting, and corrupt.

[controlledchaos1342-blog]

I have had a realization recently and i wanted to convey it but also sorry if this is a bit difficult to understand because my brain is telling me i should sleep soon.

Regardless: The initial realization that i have had a vague awareness of for quite some time is that i basically live my life as a passenger, peering in from a distance as i keep most everything from getting too close. this results in difficulty living in the moment or truly thinking about a real future

the second realization i had, which is only recently formed in a way i can recognize [if formed at all] is that this influences the way i engage in media [games, tv, books, whatever else you can imagine] in a way that isn't what would be expected. it doesn't make it so i'm even further removed, it makes it so i can immerse myself much more easily while still keeping a sort of distance.

this makes it so that it doesn't matter if i'm playing a game with modern, or even psyfi fiction levels realistic, graphics and immersion or something from the "dinosaur" ages of video games. If i have gotten invested in the game I will be emotionally invested in the stupid pixels and feel notable sadness when they die. There may be frustration, but when my pokemon faints in the silly game [assuming i have been focused in on this game] I am sad and feel remorse for letting my little fictional buddy be so badly hurt.

I think i do this because there is no difference for me [in part because of innate biochemistry and in part because of circumstances] between the distance i feel with my own life and the distance made between "myself" and "my character"

admittedly, someone pointed out that my investment is too extreme and it may mean certain games may be a problem, and this seems to have made me step even further back. I hope to potentially use games and other media to help me bridge the gap between "myself" and "my life", though first i need to reach the point i had been at before, where having a notable bit of lag and faulty keys would make me almost actually scared for my possessed character's life rather then distant resignation that the fictional being represented by 1's and 0's isn't working as advertised

if someone else reads this and thinks something like "hey that... sounds familiar" or whatever, then i wish you the best of luck in finding a good and healthy balance of investment in your life and the lives of others [even when those lives are nothing more then a script, a string of words, or a collection of pixels]

if the only way to feel invested in the events coming up is through 'frivolous and meaningless hobbies" then use those as a stepping stone to get invested in the life you actually live with

[needlepine]

Needletail as Rootpaw’s ghost guide in TBC, episode 2: “my wine aunt’s spirit is haunting me and she’s also super annoying”

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

want some positive world news? yesterday, in a truly historic moment, Colombia elected its first left-wing president. after 20 years of far-right rule, the traditionally conservative country has elected the remarkably progressive candidate Gustavo Petro (and his running mate Francia Márquez, who will be the first black woman to serve as the country's Vice President!)

for context, imagine if the U.S. had successfully elected Bernie Sanders (after 20 years of republican presidents). that's how big a deal this is. amidst a dangerous global rise in conservatism, this is an enormous win and a cause for hope.

[eastgaysian]

baldur's gate 3 immersive experience of butting in on your friends who are trying to plan a date

[bluedandelion1]

HELPPPP, THE WAY SONIC FALLS DOWN TO THE FLOOR!

AND THE WAY SHADOW REACHES HIS HAND OUT TOWARDS HIM, ACTUALLY WORRIED AND CONCERNED ABOUT HIM!

AND THE WAY HIS EARS DROP AND HIS PUPILS TURN SMALLER WHEN HE SEES THAT HE'S NOT GETTING UP BECAUSE HE'S PROBABLY THINKING THAT SONIC IS DEAD AND THAT HE'S NOT ALIVE ANYMORE AND HE CAREEEES, HE FUCKING CARES SO MUCH ABOUT HIM!

EYE PUPILS BECOME SMALLER WHEN A PERSON IS SAD! SHADOW IS FUCKING SAD THAT SONIC SEEMED DEAD! LET'S GOOOOO, HE FUCKING CARES!!!

OAIBFIUSBGIANIPUSFNGUPANOFN I CAN'T WITH THESE TWO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fluentisonus]

something something guy who is so so unhealthily dependent on these very specific formalized roles & narratives they've been cast into to maintain an ultimately broken relationship & can't handle it when the people around him increasingly start going off script

[liyazaki]

use the balm. what for? so many questions- I’ll do it for you.

GAP THE SERIES | EP. 5 [2022-2023]

[notimeforlaugh]

once I promised phil as a tourist dad

here he is

[poisonousquinzel]

sometimes I think about this lil section from one of their DC Pride stories and I cry <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Siffrin plays Disco Elysium AU: Featuring backseat gamer Loop.

[kylejsugarman]

gus is so cracked. he really came up to mike during breaking bad and was like "it is better to have pinkman on our side. its ur job now to make sure he doesnt kill himself. i know that the last time we tried to do this with nacho he killed himself, so lets try to avoid that. remember that?? how nacho shot himself in the head?? we should not repeat that mistake. make sure jesse does not shoot himself in the head. here is ur paycheck for this quarter. okay, goodbye."

[scificrows]

i made a few silly little ART phone backgrounds in the spirit of the inofficial fandom shenanigan renaissance! thank you so much for inspiring me to do this @the-yearning-astronaut!

[gunsatthaphan]

💋😏