#ty for validating me

[seraphicghost]

you're not overreacting, that's an incredibly unsafe and selfish thing to do to your family, even if one of your family members wasn't immunocompromised. I hope you're able to feel safer soon and I am wishing you the best of luck in dealing with this situation :(((

thank u :( I've calmed down since last night but im still really frustrated about the situation

[danswank]

team vinny thankyou

this is why you’re my favorite

[parasocialpixlriffs]

feminine trans guy gripping the edge of his counter, staring in the mirror with bloodshot eyes, muttering “if finn5ter can do it, i can do it” over and over again to himself

[stormcallart]

lol why was the Ganondorf reveal before the boss fight so horny? The slow standing up focused on his legs, the way he flexes his hand, the neck roll and smile... like??? HELLO??

[gael-garcia]

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind—it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps and trickles from every crack”

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, translated by Joan Pinkham

[wafflesandkruge]

thinking about malina and zoyalai and the way they differ is that malina are always willing to put each other above all else and zoyalai have a shared priority of ravka that they consider more important than their partner

Like mal says he doesn’t care about the country, that alina is his flag, alina is his nation, and eventually sacrifices himself not for ravka but for alina. alina consistently chooses mal over any opportunity to lead ravka and make it better, and eventually chooses to live with him in the countryside with no commitments to the country despite literally being a national saint.

But for zoyalai, both of them put the country above the other person and the fact they know the other person would prioritize the country over them is why they’re so confident in the relationship. nikolai knows that zoya would be able to run the country without him and that she will always value the country over him and zoya knows that nikolai has dedicated his life to his country at the expense of his own happiness and would always continue choosing ravka over anything else

[dobythealpaca]

How does it feel being the best bing and larry fanartist

MEEEEE?????? AJDJDJDHDJDJ aweee shucks- 🤭🤭🤭

BUT LIKE FR??? MEEEE??? AJDJDJDHDJDJ that's an honour and a achievement im taking to the GRAVE-

Heres an obligatory Larry sketch for u :>

[soplapinga]

Oh? you hc Vash as autistic, on the asexual spectrum but bi/pan romantic, transmasc and having some type of Ed? That's me. You're headcanoning him as literally just me. Just so you know

[utilitycaster]

also like, the cast approves the official art right? the official artist does not just make changes however they please

so i understand it not being up to your taste or whatever but this is how the cast wanted it to be, so being rude to the official artist accomplishes absolutely nothing

So here’s the thing: it’s totally fine to not like the cast's decisions! I think a lot of the weirdness I feel exists and talk about frequently is that there’s this unevenness and inconsistency in who you can criticize and the content of that criticism. Like, the main reason why ship discourse is so fucking fraught is because no one ever says “I wanted these two characters to kiss and then they didn’t and I’m sad.” It has to be “This guy’s story was clearly building up to a roaring rampage of revenge and this player was clearly avoiding their backstory and was obviously burnt out on the character and this character was clearly being infantilized in the ship I didn’t like and convenient, isn’t it how almost all of this is in the passive voice and I’m not actually coming out and saying I personally simply wasn’t happy with the choices the cast made?”

What’s also super telling is that I keep seeing the exact term “yassified” with regards to Fearne (and to a lesser extent Imogen). First off, whenever I see a very specific turn of phrase repeatedly it’s always a bit of a sign of like…does the person posting this actually feel this way in their individual thoughts or are they just parroting others. But what’s far more interesting is that Friederichs has outright said she fell somewhat short of Ashley’s intentions with regards to Fearne in the initial art, and was able to better grasp the uncanny and too-bright nature of the character now that she's seen the character in action for much longer.

It’s not really about what the cast wants. It’s literally as basic as “they changed it and I don’t like change.” And to be clear that’s very human and understandable. Before going back for my grad degree I worked in a tech role that bridged the gap between developers and end users, and people will lose their shit over minor cosmetic changes in software, let me tell you - but it’s also not rational, and it doesn’t need to be justified. A big part of life is realizing that brains are to an extent wired to be sensitive to changes in their environment, but if it’s a harmless change, it’s often beneficial to take a deep breath and let it sit for a while before knee-jerk deciding you hate it.

But I think my biggest gripe is that like, we’ve just seen the immensely swollen heads unofficial fan artists get about their work. We’ve seen people come up with truly bananacrackers faux social justice reasons to defend every hack who thinks they’re making a ~*statement*~ by drawing Imogen wearing the same exact style of glasses as twenty other people. We’ve even seen unofficial fan artists claim that their ability to make work that people will pay for is in fact evidence of their validity and contributions compared to others in the fandom. And then the second a fan artist actually gets paid by the production because they liked her art enough to hire her, it’s open season, apparently.

Personally? I strongly suspect the reason why the art of female characters in the cast gets the most criticism is because the weird refusal of many fans to be normal and say ‘hey I don’t love their choice in roleplay here’ means there’s just gallons of simmering toxic resentment about the women in the cast and their characters and choices below the surface, and somehow the official artists (who have also all been women) are considered an acceptable target for this bile.

There are also people I respect who aren’t loving the art! I think that’s a completely reasonable response. But they’re not making up a zillion reasons why actually they are correct, or yapping about it in highly visible places! It's fine to dislike it - just admit this is a personal preference with nothing deep behind it and keep it out of the tags! Like, part of why I’m so fucking wild about this relatively minor thing is when I (and others) have made untagged “I’m not a fan of this choice” posts I’ve gotten a barrage of anons thinking it’s time to change my mind and how dare you the cast likes it but for the official art it’s suddenly totally cool to be a huge fucking asshole in public.

[ahappydnp]

Holy crap how is your memory so good? That would have come in handy when i was in school lol

reasons

[crossbackpoke-check]

You have excellent tag thoughts, especially about Key & Laf!!!!

thank you!!!! i wish i had a better description than just 🥹🦋😭💕🥰 to explain my reaction to you saying nice things about my tags but please trust that this ask just made my day!!!

[crispytubes]

if you have oc x canon ships you are valid and appreciated and you should keep doing what you’re doing, I would never want you to feel ashamed of what you post

you’re doing great👍

[bitternace]

goku & 59 (genius i know)

don't know where it all went wrong

[ID: a digital drawing of goku and baby gohan from dragon ball z. the background is transparent at the top, with a blue sky leading up to a saiyan space pod. goku is in profile with his brow furrowed and his back to the audience as he holds the turtle battle pose. he is shown from the waist up and colored in black and white. gohan is inside the pod directly above goku, colored in flat colors, he has either hand pressed to the vibrant red of the pod's window, expression is worried. /end ID.]

[chewriting]

I'm a little late to this, but I really wanted to thank you all for 1,000 hits on One Will Die Before He Gets There on Ao3!!! I don't think I've ever hit a number that high in all my years of publishing my work online, so this is really really special for me.

So, really, thank you for anyone who's clicked on my fanfiction, here or on Archive of Our Own. I really appreciate the support :)

Just in case you are one of the many who hasn't check it out, I'll list them here:

Archive of Our Own

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[syrips]

tumblr fixed my mental health so hard. twitter made me feel so alone and gross but tumblr makes me accept the freak i am

[nulltune]

just wanted to apologise bc -incomprehensible noises- i am ........... Slow ... like i say it all the time but yeah! i can be very veery slow with both ic and ooc responses, so i can't stress it enough- but that really is no indication of my interest for things!!!! 😭 i'm not purposely ignoring anyone i prommy,, 🥹 it's just that slow </3 and have a horribly weak social battery </3 also just 2 be clear, this isn't abt anyone!!! i just wanted to say this bc i've just been especially -vague hand gestures- these days .....  _(:3」∠) yknow?