#overwhelming ngl

[raksh-writes]

Oh my god, I just got hit with Such a hardcore urge to do a fresh reinstall of Skyrim and rebuild my mod list from the ground up that it's making it Impossible to focus on anything else and I was supposed to be writing a paper for one of my uni classes today, like why, brain??? Why NOW??? 😭😭

Feels like Im not gonna be able to get my hands on anything else until I do it and it might as well take the whole day ahhhhowpghhiulaergnilaengnalg the fuck is this, help 😭😭

[nova-rpv]

a redraw of the first drawing i posted here to celebrate the fact that ive been in tumblr for more than a whole year posting my shit and havent deleted my blog in panic yippee \:D/ (mushy rant in tags)

[mossy-aro]

ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.

when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!

that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.

but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!

joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.

and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.

tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.

[ctntduotism]

@the-quackity-competition

🦋🦋 comms open 🦋🦋

[nicolloyd]

another simple comic, ft garm again :')

[lizardsarecute]

was casually sketching and really liked these ones! bit of a tired theme goin on here haha

and the little animation is one i made after finishing some work yesterday. really helped wind down!

[carouselunique]

Decided to go through with this after all! Post proof of donation of at minimum 10$USD and a simple request and you can get a colored sketch! (Honey kindly modeled for the example like a good filly!)

[reineydraws]

i was in a waiting room a few nights ago keeping myself occupied by doodling smth inspired by the band au (read his band au fic!!!) by @manofbeskar on my phone (see above) and then when i dug through some older doodles i found another one inspired by his s-lion au! (see below)

thank u for keeping the mishanks brain turning with all your amazing art and fic!!!

[horrorshow]

It was us – the blood, the sweat, the tears, man. That’s us. We’ve been doing this our whole lives.

for @wincestwednesdays prompt: blood

[little-pondhead]

Overwhelming Urges

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Technus curses Danny after he spends a little too long in Soup Jail.

Until Danny can break the curse, every piece of technology he touches will react badly-come to life, try to eat him, send his embarrassing Facebook photos to all his coworkers, delete his high score on Doomed, etc. He’s miserable.

And because he uses technology quite often to help him with his rogues, Danny has had to do things the old fashioned way by physically manhandling all the ghosts that come through the portal. It’s been putting a damper on everyone’s moods, but Technus refuses to release the curse.

(At least he can turn intangible, so the buildings he visits don’t try to burn him alive. Technically, he’s not touching anything!)

Danny’s coworkers eventually get involved when Victor Stone, AKA Cyborg, locks eyes with him at a Justice League meeting and immediately tries to shoot him.

[reignwren]

Hey head’s up- YouTube is officially putting ads on pause screens AND encouraging generative AI usage with new tools integrated into their platform

This may not be the biggest issue for some people, but for me personally I’ve already been growing exhausted with social media encouraging generative AI like this. Not to mention YouTube’s already oversaturated ad usage is now promised to only grow worse. I’m incredibly tempted now more than ever to just stop using the site- and certainly will for a while at least- but do with this information what you will

[gxtzeizm]

the fact that me, as a fan of both lando and oscar without any bias (maybe a bit on lando but not that much), is going to witness both "oscar fans, lando antis" and "lando fans, oscar antis" posts all in my one dash 🥲🥲

also the fact that atp i couldn't even bother enough with this same situation on both lewis and george. now it happens on lando and oscar as well which got me like....

[woah-uhuh-uhuh-uhuh]

common jeremy postures

[starflungwaddledee]

she's normal!

(tags were by @the-void-is-a-disappointment on this post)

[miikoissant]

Welcome to the "I have Overwhelming Siblings" club!

[tomwambsgans]

yearning for another day, another time