#to clarify: I am not a mother

[halluciniwaynia]

i think one of the most baffling articles I have ever read analyzing welcome to night vale has to be this one from the artifice (written in dec 2020, so very recently in terms of the shows history) because it points out literally everything correctly about wtnv but then pulls an insane conclusion out of its ass that wtnv…supports fascism…? Because the narrative does not explicitly show the change of the town or focus on that as a plot point…..?

like call me crazy but i think wtnv assumes that you, the viewer, know that what is depicted in it is bad. There’s a reason the show doesn’t delve into body horror outside of the desert bluffs segments (most of the time) because the horror is that the town is so wretched and byzantinely run. You’re supposed to laugh at badly this place is managed, you’re supposed to laugh at the phrase “vote correctly, or never see your loved ones again!” because it’s so eerily grimdark of like, actual American fascism. This entire show is literally a parody of everything wrong with modern suburbia/small town closemindedness, so much so that it ended up being prophetic in a few places (“helpful pandemics”, wheat and wheat by products). Did you think the interns being literally disposable was a joke the writers came up because they thought that was a good and fair practice in the real world?

if you came out of night vale thinking you were supposed to sympathize with its residents and the way the town is structured, or that it’s a nice to live, you ended up with the wrong message. Yes, Cecil and Carlos and everyone within the show are lovable, but the presentation is deliberately framed like that. Everything from the supernatural to the horrifyingly realistic depictions of fascistic liberal democracy are presented as being normal because we’re living in a world where the latter is becoming normal. We’re living in times that are tumultuous and terrible, times where our tax dollars go more towards bombs than they do our healthcare. People are getting married while other people are being murdered unfairly because of some kind of societal injustice. That’s just the reality of the world we live in, baby! And pointing that out through a satirical horror podcast does not suddenly mean that the writers condone what they are depicting. What kind of backwards ass tumblr reading comprehension is this article?

[ut-scatteredextension]

Happy Pride Month! And also Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day dghsghfs

Bonus identities I associate with Papyrus, plus a regular non-pride flag version below:

[kaurwreck]

for the ask game: LILAC CHARCOAL AND RASPBERRY

anon this is so sweet 😭

[ask game provided below for reference; if you'd like to play, please reblog from OP here:]

[ask-moonbig]

Well if you're friends with Ma then i'm your friend too!!

*Aurum smiles brightly as saying that,but his expression shifts rather quickly.*

A cult? Like a religion? I don't see nothing wrong with that! Why would you be offended?

*Classic chatolic (Speakers) raised kid still in belief cuz spent fourteen years surrounded by his literal Gods.*

( *Cha cha slide* me when i'm also a chatolic kid))

If you would like to be my friend, I would gladly be yours.

...

A cult suggests evil and blind following. I do not like that label for me or my mooners. I am fine with being called a religion though.

[kigiom]

it's been. it sure has been a just-over-twelve-closer-to-sixteen hours.

[vibinglikethat]

finally watching bridgerton season 3 part 2 now and colin bridgerton just went OFF on portia featherington like YES king get her ass !!!

[wachi-delectrico]

Gonna get spicy for a second and say that everyone loves spewing hate about narcissistic (NPD) parents and how awful parents with personality disorders are, but if someone were to make a post with the exact same cadence about ADHD parents they'd get shot in public at first sight

[cyncerity]

Hi, I absolutely love your store shifter au and it gave me so much brainrot!! I’m borrowing a friend’s account for the moment because I can’t have a tumblr. Anyhow, I just wanted you to say that even if I can’t interact, I absolutely love all your ideas!!! If I understood the lore right, I would assume George is Sapnap’s younger brother and whatever traumatizing experience caused Sapnap to shift also took George away from Dream when they were young. Will Dream and George ever meet in person and if they met as tinies, would George realize it was Dream and what would he think of Dream having the pendant/braid? How would Tommy learn Dream was a shifter, and if one of them was tiny when that happened how would they deal with/would there be a language barrier? And how does Dream learn to shift back? This is much longer than intended, sorry. Feel free to answer parts of it or none of it, I just wanted you to know you’re wonderful!! And if this ask isn’t long enough, then here’s some writing prompts -a friendly admirer

“I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

“My clothes. They just look so, so…”

“Yeah. Hard to believe we even fit that size, right?”

“It’s crazy.”

xxxxxx

"Wow"

"What?"

"Nothing... I'm just not used to

seeing you from this angle.”

"Yeah, I guess it's usually the

other way around.”

This is literally one of the most personal asks I’ve ever gotten solely for the fact that how you described being on tumblr is exactly how I was

I wasn’t allowed on tumblr, so i’d wait till everyone in my house was asleep and then pull out my middle school ipod as a burner device, look at g/t posts for an hour or so, then delete the google tabs i’d pulled them up on and fully shut down the ipod and hide it.

I lurked in this specific community for about a year, then lurked with an account so i could send asks for about another half year until i caved and got the app without parental permission lol (my dad had seen how tumblr was before the bad bots started to get banned so he honest to god thought this was one of those kinda sites but hes chill now)

suffice to say i completely know where you’re coming from and I love you for it 💖

Even if you can’t like my posts or have an account, just coming on here and saying you like my content is so awesome and it absolutely means the world to me 💕✨💖

As for you’re thoughts on the lore (and thank you for sending so many questions I love when this happens):

You’re getting close >:)

Sapnap doesn’t have any siblings, but as I’ve mentioned before (i think), Quackity does! And the event that sparked Sapnap’s shifting was similar to what got George taken in the first place (which could definitely be a reason that it was distressing enough to cause him to shift 👀), just on a larger scale and at different times. George was gone well before Sapnap became a shifter.

As for more on George, i’ll limit myself to what I can say cause there’s so much I want to write for him. At some point it’s my goal to write a story for him as a sort of interlude of the “dream shifted for the first time” story (there will be more parts! I’m working on them! Ngl this ask kinda made me realize how much I wanted to finish the second part of that) and have him fully explained there.

But I can tell you that Dream and George will meet in person! I can’t tell you if Dream will be tiny when they meet, cause you don’t even know for sure what species George is yet, but i promise the boys will meet! Will George know it’s Dream when they meet and vice versa? Who knows! That’s for me to know and you all to find out later >:)

Tommy won’t learn Dream is a shifter for a while, since Dream is stuck at the store. It also takes a bit of time for a new shifter to shift back to their normal size, since they’ve been repressing their capabilities for so long, their body has to stay at the opposite size to get used to it initially. Dream will be able to shift back at some point, but not without some help :)

And now that you mention it, there definitely could be a language barrier, and that could make things really interesting 👀 (im imagining Tommy seeing Dream tiny for the first time at a loss for words and Dream frantically trying to explain what he is but obviously Tommy already knows, so Tommy starts talking about being a shifter himself and he can’t hear Dream’s absolute shock and confusion at this information and can answer none of his questions)

And the writing prompts, YES, i am IN LOVE WITH THEM

If i don’t write specific things for them, they will be put into the next few stories for this au because they are such good ideas oh my word

and as a treat because i loved answering your questions and it made me really happy to get an ask that hit so close to my own experience here’s some miscellaneous Store Shifter drawings from my chorus class, just for you bestie 💖

i have so many of these for so many aus you don’t even know the half of it

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

i know there are many haha jokes about going into a doctors appointment and the doctor pulling out the internet as you start speaking but today i went in to talk about the issues i'm having with omeprazole and the man googled it. sir.

[alicentsgf]

💚 @aemondryvers

rules: list 5 comfort characters and tag 5 people

1. Beatrice no-last-name/first-name-inconclusive - Warrior Nun

2. Dana Scully - X-Files

3. Daisy Johnson & Melinda Qiaolian May - AoS

4. Percy (only man I will ever love) Jackson - PJO

5. Elizabeth Bennet - P&P

tagging: @alicenthightowr @lillia-autumn-windsong @starlight95tonight @tolstoys-nemesis @cahtelyntully

[theswordwizard]

Is there any room for Tegan and Sara on the butchverse playlist a la The Con

YES thats such a good one. I was trying to clean up the playlist before posting and while it's a solid length I am held back by only being able to put music I've already listened to on it. Here it is if people have suggestions but I need to warn you that if I personally don't like it its not going in, this is my on loop rn. if people want to suggest something like t swift they need to do it on twitter where I can't threaten them.

i have a very selective process where tracks are ranked by A) lyrical match B) overall tone C) how much I personally like it. a song can't get in for C alone but if there is a strong match for only A or B then C can override. i will occasionally put a track in because i think its funny. sorry liberals. also there is no 'hayloft' in this playlist, you're welcome.

[tsnbrainrot]

oh god, my mother just showed me a little card that was made for me/about me by my day nursery caretaker when i was like 18 ?? months ?? old ?? and it said 'you like being told stories and you like to Make Decisions'

this might be the most damning piece of evidence that people fundamentally remain the same i've ever seen rip

[emdotcom]

The little hater fanclub is fucking expanding, hell yeah

[ccosmicstarzz]

Me giggling at cat videos on my phone while my parents are in the living room LOUDLY debating whether or not we should get a restraining order against my biological mother

[weathersex]

pls read the tags if you manage to misinterpret this as pro-policing

always heartbreaking when somebody with otherwise cool thoughts is unable to comprehend that people - especially minorities - tend to speak with vitriol and generally lash out at oppressor groups, because we are experiencing decades, if not centuries, of generational trauma in a system that views any kind of trauma that isn't interpersonal or war-related (only if you're a western veteran*) as lesser, or not real.

*i'm not saying our veterans are treated well either. i could go on a whole tangent about how fucking awful the military industrial complex is not just for citizens of the third world, but the people who were lied to so that they could be made to kill innocents, only to die of cancer, gunfire or suicide due to the negligence and outright cruelty of our government.

while yes, not literally every single cop is a shithead on an interpersonal level, they are working for a System that (in america at least) is Bastardized by racism: hence the phrase "all cops are bastards". people lash out at the idea of cops or talk shit about them as if they are merely frustrated with individuals, but what they are actually mad at is the System itself. it is not a hot take that the people serving this system are humans, and if anything, that just makes it more horrifying.

humans are being groomed into violence by the mainstream media and administrations of both major parties. they are being spoon-fed lies about crime rates and drugs, so that they will do the dirty work of the people at the top who have already dedicated their lives to cruelty, because they themselves were groomed into violence by someone that was just like who they've become.

it's an endless fucking cycle.

it makes sense that, because this has been happening for so long, people have been burnt. we are restless and scared. sometimes we scream, sometimes we cry, and sometimes we bite like hurt dogs*.

and now, i am tempted to go on a tangent about the horrific mistreatment of k9 units. god help me.

[isweariambeingsonormal]

"And yes, seeing you fail because you are your own worst enemy pains me daily."

- txt from mom