#this essay changed my life

[filthforfriends]

"Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body…I wish I thought about people like this more often. I think it’s the opposite of what our culture teaches us to do. We prefer to pick people apart to find their flaws."

- For Lovers and Fighters

An essay by Dean Spade

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

[epickiya722]

I know what these last few chapters have taught me about BNHA...

Blocking people is useful! 😐

[ziezii]

did my annual watch of the infamous @sneezypeasy 's zutara video while folding laundry, it never gets old

[pineapplefulfillseveryneed]

Sparkstember day 23: Two Hands One Mouth✨

[ratcandy]

i wish everyone who purposefully misgenders nonbinary characters goes to hell no matter what

[oomles]

Thank you for being a friend 💖

I haven't done pixel art in ages, so I made these to celebrate the anniversary of my favorite show. Happy 13 years, Friendship is Magic!

[ghost-bison]

I'll never thank my university literature teacher enough for being such an obsessed shakespeare bitch, transmitting it to me like a disease and managing to tame my adhd so well that I didn't mind getting up every wednesday at 7am and sitting down for 2 hours straight. one night I was stuck on a flixbus home from a concert and nearly had a breakdown cause I was supposed to go to my literature class first thing in the morning but had to miss it as my bus was three hours late

mr p. you absolute badass

I'll never forget that look he'd give me, like the monkey puppet side-eye meme, whenever he'd ask a question and there was a long silence and he knew I was holding back from raising my hand. I was so bad at analysing subtext in books before I met this guy and he was french but did a perfect scottish accent and I was so sad when he retired. not only did he make me love and understand shakespeare, but he taught me a whole new way of thinking

mr p. if you're seeing this, you've rewired my brain

[the-somwthing]

Insane about the concept of relationships in the life series changing completely due to the erasure of feelings between seasons. Not in that they are no longer friends or start making new friends, no, I mean in that looking back on YOUR OWN relationships you start to see them differently because you no longer FEEL the love and care and instead just have to look at it super objectively. That thing you did out of love now looks like a stupid mistake that you’re terrified you felt like doing. That imperfect but still loving relationship now looks toxic and you’re not sure why you were even there.

It’s funny when it’s negative feelings that get erased. Oh, I hated you, but we’re good now! But the positive ones? I no longer understand why I loved you, now our relationship looks confusing and strange? That hurts. You avoid relationships after that because you’re scared of how stupid “caring” made you back then. While your ex is hurt and confused, because they didn’t really do anything wrong, all things considered it was an average death game relationship. Or, the feeling is mutual, and you both avoid each other despite the love you used to share.

Or, you both still like each other despite the feelings being mostly gone. It happens. You’ll likely not be as close, or have to rebuild that relationship slowly, but you can still get along. An interesting thing to take into account is the fact that the emotion erasure is not even. Some people lose more feelings than others, and some feelings are erased more than others. It can feel random at times, and makes relationships between seasons all the more chaotic and unpredictable. Someone might still love you because you were once married, while you only see them as an okay guy now, no longer having that love that unfortunately seems to have lingered for them.

Now, this is all my personal fanon, but it is heavily based on canon, so agree or disagree if you want, idc, I’m just driving myself mad with my own interpretations :P

[xxowlet-with-dragons]

Happy 4 years to my favourite show! 😊❤️

[loverboybrightsideghost]

not really formulating any thoughts right now but i am thinking about victor frankenstein and his well-adjusted childhood and how the very thing that led to his downfall was that he got excited about a book, an idea, and his father dismissed his interest so quickly and so casually that victor kept on that path, rebelling against his dad's dismissal of him, and if not for that, who knows if victor even would have went on to create the creature.

[conceptofjoy]

Sorry for that quick xenophobic remark, but seriously i wonder whyyy these types of people don't, like i dunno, reflect? On the specific features they deem to change

Or actually, i do kind of see how they're thinkin, but its one thing to be just ignorant, and other just, being excited that youre doing something very much not ok

Well, all i can say is hope you have a good day

yeah ur right, ignorance and being excited that ur pissing off people who are “more sensitive slash more politically correct than you”. being edgy is fun and then you get defensive bc what ur doing isnt reeeeeally important bc its just pixels.

not like theyre reflective of your deep rooted beliefs on eurocentric beauty standards or anything.

(also ty u too :3)

[dbphantom]

Hate having adhd went to go work on my fallout modpack, got distracted while going to disable the steam overlay, ended up in the points shop, went to go edit my profile, decided to change my pfp, found a buried folder I forgot existed, found some old Veneer art I forgot existed, spent 45 minutes looking at all the old photos, STILL HAVE NOT TOGGLED ONE SIMPLE OPTION THAT SHOULD'VE TAKEN 30 SECONDS AT MOST

[blood-injections]

Imagine being a killjoy lost in the desert and looking up and seeing giant fucking birds with ten foot wingspans circling above you and in your half insane state, delirious from dehydration, you don’t realize what they are, you just think of stories you’ve heard and the word ‘thunderbird’ escapes your parched lips like a prayer.

[faithfromanewperspective]

just a heads up I may take a break from tumblr for a bit (or I may not. I may fail at it which we’ll deal with if we get there) because it’s starting to feel like the news rn. and I know my limit but also my creativity as an activist and how negativity does stifle it and I’ll be a better activist if I step away and focus on solutions for a while.

I might post some of these solutions:: I’m doing a course on making an impact via business as well as my urban design stuff and I’m gonna post some of that at some point, some guinea fowl pics and I’ve got some music for over at @edge-oftheworld that’s almost ready to put up. so I’ll still check my notifs and if you see something I’d like please please please tag me in it??? I will appreciate an awful lot. just need to not see sad world news for a second but I want to see your neurodivergence headcanons and ideas and what you think of songs.

also dm me if you want my Instagram or fb or email or linkedin idk just know I rarely check all of those too but I will change my ways if we are having a good conversation :)

[starii-lins]

happy 8th anniversary undertale we love you <3

also whoever buys me the new undertale merch i will give you my soul (/j but iwant it so bad THE BLOOKY LAMP.)