#rant incoming ->

[sadlittlecountess]

stop comparing rebecca and wanda. both are billy’s mothers. in the comics, wanda loves and appreciates rebecca, and rebecca loves and appreciates wanda in return. both accepts and respect that they share a son. wanda is accepted into the family, and has been to family gatherings. they are literally close friends. stop invalidating rebecca as a mother, because wanda created and gave birth to the boys first, and stop invalidating wanda because rebecca shares blood with billy, and raised him longer. wanda loves rebecca, and doesn’t compete with her —- so why should you?

[genderqueer-karma]

what the fuck i didn’t expect to cry just now. it’s so amazing how you can connect to people you’ll never meet.

[mokeonn]

I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[lostsyren]

Interesting…

{The White Lotus 3x06}

[theythemmer]

Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched.

[carnivorous-arboretum]

bad end

[i'm a sucker for a lightwarden au hehe]

[orphicauroras]

The people who cry about not having enough "feminine woman" in acotar are the same people who mock other female characters when they do anything other than wield a sword.

I firmly believe a lot in acotar fandom have a very limited view of feminism and what female traits are. Everyday we see a lot of people say Aelin, Emerie, Feyre, Gwyn or Nesta are not feminine simply because they can wield swords or know how to take down an enemy. To this I can only ask does sword wielding or battling automatically reduces one of their femininity? Do all their other qualities fade away due to this "warrior women" trait?

Aelin loves dressing up and chocolate cakes. Emerie loves reading smut and gardening. Feyre loves painting and has taken interest in teaching other people. Gwyn loves singing and makes bracelets for her friends. Nesta loves dance and music. I'm not saying these ARE feminine traits but people often overlook Or make fun of all these characteristics and focus on simple sword wielding. You can't complain about a character being "not enough feminine or being typical warrior girl" when you yourself reduce the said character to one trait and erase everything.

And what exactly makes up this femininity? Loving pink or dressing up or playing with flowers are not the only feminine traits. Different cultures have different views on what makes one feminine. What a lot in the fandom have is what I like to call Pinterest femininity. Which makes sense considering the demographics but it's jarring to see people pretend like the feminine traits they know and think are the only ones that are applicable.

[youling-the-ghost]

Gosh I love small fandoms where everyone is equally insane and everyone's just making references to the source material.

Like, I can go "y'all I just saw a badger, I sure hope he doesn't become King of England" and everyone will get what I'm talking about while people who aren't in the fandom are confused as shit.

[toxiccaves]

I think what a lot of tumblr-only people are missing about twitter failing, is that it was always a better website when it came to small businesses, instant world event news, fact checking, having users from all over the world, being a source for disaster relief information or warnings, and anything else to keep people up to date with going ons.

Sure, tumblr has many users from all over, but the website is still largely english biased and not nearly as widespread as twitter. I know a lot of news and knowledge comes in on here too. I've learned a lot and see a lot of donation posts in regards to world events, but its nothing like twitter unless you know who to follow. Not to mention, half the news I got here, was days later and from twitter to begin with.

Seeing that being taken away in favor of hate speech and enabling abusers (with the recent potential of getting rid of the block feature over there) and pushing blue user comments to the top (aka elon's weird fans), drowning out anyone else on popular posts, sucks! It sucks for the world and small businesses. because there's really no alternative to it right now.

The site's running rampant with spam and scammers and its becoming more and more unusable by the day. And some people think it's silly to be upset over it or "you shouldn't have all your eggs in one basket" well there only is one basket! This is literally people's livelihoods people seem to be making fun of anytime a change happens that breaks the site and people post all their socials.

And everyone from every country is talking about different websites they're considering, and its splitting up our connection to the world. And surely he knew who this was hurting with every decision.

[juanitasupreme]

I haven't known ONE day of peace since coming across that italians-bisexual-situationship

[alienboy51]

you ever really hate a show but you're obsessed with it and it genuinely changed your trajectory on life

pretty sure there's a high chance i have autism

really i think the biggest gripe i have with voltron is the fact that there's very little episodes that just build upon the character dynamics or world building. sure, the bulk of the series is plot progression, but we really don't learn a lot. it's a very convoluted series. we don't know much about the magic system. i think a big thing that voltron: legendary defender missed was the art of "show, don't tell." they TELL us that lance and allura are in love, but there's very little buildup to this, especially since they get together almost immediately after lotor dies. they TELL us that keith views shiro as a brother, but we don't see WHY until season seven. it's a great episode, but with keith and shiro's relationship being so very important to keith as a character, i wish they'd explored it a little more. this is why so many people like klance, platonically or otherwise. keith and lance INTERACT and their relationship grows with time. we don't get any episodes of them solo, like we do with other characters, which i think was a big missed opportunity since they are the only characters that are really at odds with each other consistently. i think exploring why they don't get along, and why lance is so resentful towards keith would've been a big stepping stone in progressing their friendship. i think having solo episodes between characters that don't interact as much would've been a great idea, such as hunk and shiro or allura and pidge. those characters would definitely be compatible. show, don't tell, like i said. show us that the characters love each other. don't tell us that they're close friends, don't TELL us that they view each other as family, if you're not going to show us WHY they care so much about each other. keith said it in season seven, why are they really friends? they're just people who got stuck together due to circumstance. why weren't we shown how strong their relationship supposedly is throughout the show? why is the character development lacking in so many aspects? why does keith grow as a character and leader off screen? why don't hunk and lance get to grow into their own people; why does lance only get TOLD that he's strong and self assured, if that's not really the case? honestly, why does coran not get anything outside of being comedic relief when he's just as much a tragic character as allura? oh my god iris stop yapping challenge

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Angel Dust: "We're friendsies now, right Vaggigator?"

Vaggie: "We were a few seconds ago."

Angel Dust: "Meanin' personal askes are a-okay I'm gussin."

Vaggie: "No."

Angel Dust: "Awww...! And here I thought CHARLIE was really HOPIN' we'd all get closer an' stuff..."

Vaggie: "Fine."

Angel Dust: "Nice. So."

Angel Dust: (points at vaggie's choker necklace)

Angel Dust: "That's a pet collar, ain't it?"

Vaggie: "CHARLIE! I'M GONNA KILL ANGEL DUST, OKAY?"

Charlie: (distantly) "No you're nooot~!"

Vaggie: "WELL I'M AT LEAST THINKING ABOUT IT REALY HARD!"

Angel Dust: "Bet her tellin' ya what do to also gets you reeaal h- ack!"

Vaggie: "She said I couldn't kill you."

Vaggie: "She never said I couldn't make you suffer."

Angel Dust: "Ya tryin' to outdo my job, toots, an' it ain't gonna work."

Vaggie: "Have you ever watched multiple seasons of a show that built up the romantic tension and deep emotional bond between two women only to kill one of them off and claim the other was in love the whole time with a man she canonically spent most of the show being belittled or ignored by?"

Angel Dust: "..you... wouldn't... dare."

Vaggie: "Your evenings are mine for the rest of eternity, friend-o."

Angel Dust: "cHARLIE HELP-!"

Charlie: (distantly) (distracted) "Have fun with movie night, you two~"

[soda-sparkss]

the momlita headcanon is fine i guess but i'm gonna need you all to start seeing her as her own character instead of a maternity figure

[ic-napology]

Napoleon, Josephine and personal stuff - rant incoming brace yourself or scroll

I finally got a grasp on exactly why I was so struck by Napoleon at 13. And I kept being like that for many years later.

It was how desperately he opened his heart and threw himself in the arms of a nice and graceful woman, one he idealised maybe for just being kind to him.

I aknowledge how Josephine was mainly useful to him for very practical reasons, but I feel that, because of that, Napoleon felt genuine elation and gratefulness to her nonetheless. I think he valued her with an emotional response, even if the reasons of her being the best party were practical. In their marriage he would find social stability. In her house, domestic stability. In her presence, sentimental stability. He had not lived in a house of his own since he was 9, and now his home in Corsica was destroyed.

I feel he kinda put himself in a full psychological dependency to Josephine during the first four years of marriage, which seems uncanny from a character that usually valued logic, pragmatism and self-reliancy. But that was a personality based on what was needed to survive in very hostile environments, not on what he could openly wish on a serene path.

His love letters are said to be "romantic" and "passionate", and in some point they are indeed. (I also believe that Napoleon's letters to Josephine stand out mainly because people don't expect it, based on a certain image of Napoleon as stern and hyper-rational; but I remember some similar lovely passages from other people's letters too from the same age.)

But to me now in these letters he mostly sounds desperate to be loved, after so many years of being on his own on unstable situations. He feels relieved to have found someone he could be openly emotionally vulnerable to and relies in that joy; he shares so much things about his campaign, he was never so open about his feeling on things like in these written words. However, this all seems based on his expectations on how Josephine would be like, on an ideal rather than how Josephine actually was going.

He really idealised her and very much held on that image. In his letters, she is perfect, then she seemingly chooses to be evil to him on a whim. It's not like she was actually dealing with her own toll of traumas, insecurities, especially around husbands and their power, and was not on a condition of comforting another lonely person. Especially not with the dedication Napoleon seemed to pretend. It's still a big thing that she came to Italy while even being sick.

Besides, Napoleon had not lost his insecurities after their marriage nor after her arrival on Italy and she was not going to help him in that, because she couldn’t.

It was inevitable that she would defy him, and I'm not talking about the (not actually proved) affair with Charles. The smallest thing would have been hurtful to a starved and insecure person, who puts huge expectations on a single person and lets himself depend on her actions only to be happy. It doesn't help that Josephine was actively being defiant because of her reasons.

And I relate a lot to her too. I feel she was as hurt as Napoleon by her own experiences, maybe she has been socially and emotionally humiliated even more in her own contexts of living, despite her privilege.

So that's it, I was captured by the voluntary emotional dependency on specific people you hope to receive care from, because you have love starvation and you are desperate.

I personally did that a lot with specific people between long periods of distrust of everyone and of emotional avoidance of everything, because I was regularly deceived. Or wasn't corresponded. That's why I'm still fond of Napoleon and Josephine, and also sad for them. But I know that's a dangerous thing to do for both parties. Don't let others be the only ones to take the toll of your well being. Thanks therapy.

I don't pretend that this interpretation of Napoleon is correct; as you see there's a lot of self-projection in order to elaborate things from my personal life, which is also the reason why I felt passionate about those characters. Maybe it's also your reason too. So yeah, my words have no informative value. But I hope that still might resonate in someone else.

[marshmallowcat666]

I’m currently hyperfixated rereading Ftfo and can barely do any drawing but I’m trying!!! ‘^’ Designs are easier to draw for some reason so might see only those for a bit T-T

anyways have my version of Lord Lunar’s Gemini! They get fun new outfits!!!