#to remind myself

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

gotta make a patch that says have you rocked back and forth today

[canichangemyblogname]

Shaking my head to myself today because I’m remembering this conversation I had with a girl (against my will) my freshman year of college. She insisted that *everyone* was solely attracted to the person, never the body, and that *no one* felt an exclusive or a primary attraction to only one gender. Her philosophy was that if you fostered a strong-enough relationship with someone, you would fall in love regardless of who they are if not for society.

I reminded her that her worldview was very singular and very specific to her own experiences, failing to consider anyone else’s lived experiences. For example: when I foster a platonic relationship with someone, my feelings for them stay platonic. I won’t ever fall “in love” with every last one of my friends. I then reminded her that it’s important to respect same-sex/gender attraction. Many L&G individuals have their sexuality disrespected through rhetoric similar to what she was using.

Not only did she then tell me that no one is “truly gay or lesbian,” but she then doubled down on *insisting* that everyone is attracted to everyone. She tried to prove this by asking my (still closeted) trans ass a series of questions. It went something like the following:

“Have you ever admired the shape of a girl’s breasts?” “No. I don’t think I have.” “You’ve never thought: wow, I wish my boobs looked like that?” “Gosh, no.” “Never thought: I wish my body or my hair looked like hers?” “Afraid not.” “Never wished your style or clothes looked like another girl’s? Or that her clothes looked on you the way they do on her?” “Definitely not.” “You’ve never admired the way clothes look on other girls?” “I really don’t think so.” “Have you ever even so much as appreciated your own features in women’s clothes?” “No.”

A part of me looks back at this and I kinda wonder, if she had asked me the inverse of those questions, would that have cracked my egg earlier? Instead, the conversation veered into left field as she began talking about great apes and incest.

[koddlet]

personal rules for winter ❄

[selfhealingmoments]

[onebadnoodle]

silly doodle but i kinda want to do more with this idea

(totally gonna forget about this later)

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[agentwashsimp]

It starts with

One thing, I don't know why

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[vykodlak]

as soon as I'm done watching a movie

[atalana]

the curse of adhd:

i will remember with absolute clarity, when the thought strikes me that i have a text to send someone, that this is the fourth time in three days i've attempted to send this specific text

i will forget, in the time it takes me to pick up my phone, that i picked it up intending to send a text

[mulderscully]

seeing fanworks in general get less and less engagement here is making me so sad but i wanna say this: if you are still giffing, still drawing fanart, still writing fanfic your work is absolutely cherished and important. your time is never wasted.

[mxwhore]

i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

[white-wolf-soul]

[nicktoonsunite]

summore misc NU doodles

[doberbutts]

Transphobes scaremonger about doctors not telling you the risks of HRT

But what my doctor didn't warn me about is that at some point your body hair reaches a level of length and fuzziness that means you need to do some amount of conditioning and brushing/combing or you will be very uncomfortable because your body hair will start to try to mat

[calware]