#which doesn't seem like a lot

[birdrights]

i think i've finally quit biting my nails, which has been my worst habit for all 23 years of my life and which i have never been able to quit for more than like a few hours at a time

[auburnflight]

Sooo I just realized I have TWO sets of recurring dreams now

One is about being out somewhere trying to take a bus home, and watching tons of buses go by but NONE of them is the right one, and sometimes I think there’s one that might be close enough but it always ends up being wrong and I’m just stuck where I am as it gets later and later in the day

And the other is about being in Fire Emblem Three Houses (so far it’s just been places in the monastery) and saying “Edelgard... Edelgard... Edelgard” over and over and having this vague sense of sadness and loss that lingers after I wake up

idk what’s going on but it’s kinda disturbing ;; stress dreams were a problem for me up until a bit ago, but ideas this specific and unusual have never repeated themselves noticeably before... I don’t know much about dreams so I’m not sure what to do with this I just feel like I need to write them down so they don’t take up so much space in my head

[marshmallowsims]

What skin did you use on Amelia please? If it is personal what is the base? Hope you have good recover from teeth extraction

Hello!!! 

You can find her skin right here, ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ I haven’t edited it at all so as you see it on her is what you’ll get :3 

Thank you so much!!! I’m really hoping so too cause currently my body is not handling this too well xD 

[bandsandwristbands]

I think something that's really amazing about my current relationship and also something that isn't common enough is how ready my gf is to indulge in my interests.

Like, even if it's something she's never even heard of she'll listen to me explain the whole thing, or she'll sit down and watch a whole show with me and it's a lot of fun to be excited about something and not feel like I'm being annoying. Usually I feel like even my friends don't really care about what I'm obsessed with so I keep quiet but I love talking about the things I'm crazy for!

It's insane to me that I've never felt completely okay sharing new interests, but it's really incredible that someone not only encourages my excitement but goes out of their way to support me by reading my dumb fanfic and looking for my art! It just! Feels really good!

Tldr: Support people's passions! And don't be ashamed of your own passions!

[theprodigxl-daughter]

gotta love how christians on tumblr will see us being like 'I would fight god in a parking lot' 'christianity ruined my life' '*extensive post about all the ways the church traumatized you*' and think 'wow surely these people seem like people who would love to hear about christ. it really seems like if i say "god loves you" or, worse, if i offend them and tell them to repent they WILL convert'. like, my guy, what's not clicking here.

[xochitai]

on vacation

[lacefuneral]

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spock is gay compilation

[theshadowsanctum]

Shadow Comics 41

[ihatebnha]

I hate degradation tbh, but it’s so prevalent that it’s hard to get away from it :( And I get kind of suspicious when I find men (esp cishet white men) that really like degrading women specifically. Like why do you enjoy that so much Paul? Huh?

NO BUT fr. fr. fr. fr. fr. fr. fr. fr. fr. slams reblob. fr. fr. fr.

there's literally so much to say on the subject that i barely even want to get started (or know how to address it all properly), but like...

as well as i can just ignore it on here, it's so concerning to think about how... decontextualized snippets of intense smut can promote the abuse of inexperienced women... simply because while women's/non-cis/poc interest in kink often coincides with experience and exploration... cishet male interest can stem from unrealistic porn that promotes the idea that dominance is equivalent to violence.

which isn't to say sex can't be good or safe (and that porn isn’t damaging to everyone, in a way)... or that u shouldn't like degradation, but it just makes so much more scary to find a good partner who has an understanding of treating you well otherwise.

and i actually think about it ALL the time because... i'm kinda one of those people who like, doesn't consider watching porn cheating... but also i'm bonking myself on the head because... THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT BAD!!!

and i mostly just bring this up because (i was literally ALWAYS debating about this w/ my ex)... it's so different when an oppressed group partakes in sexual endeavors (including porn) vs. when a man does... and that's not something i think gets talked about enough, the difference in reasons for AND responses to consumption.

but it makes my blood BOIL. that vulnerability in sex has been so.... dissociated from reality, safety... purpose. etc. to the point where... i can hard stand degradation even when i know that people genuinely enjoy it.

and this is only one facet of it all, so i could go on. but anyway.

reminds me of something i saw that was like.............. "the person who's most likely going to treat you with proper bdsm etiquette isn't the hunky, aloof guy, it's the nerdy one who runs a d&d club."

That shit made me slap my knee.

[eijiroukiriot]

i think...there’s something simple and familiar and earth-shatteringly important in this. there’s a million ways that this could go but only one way that it ends 

[mokutone]

page 1 || page 2 || page 3 || page 4 (the end!)

(Image Description under readmore)

[ID:

A traditionally inked, digitally colored comic page, rendered mostly in desaturated shades of purple.

Kakashi is lying in his hospital bed, head turned to the side, looking in Tenzō's direction through an exhausted eye. "I'm sorry," he says.

Tenzō turns slightly towards him, and takes a long, thoughtful pause before replying "I don't know why you're apologizing."

"Did you at least go back to the barracks to rest?" Kakashi asks. Again, Tenzō takes a long time to respond. When he finally says "Yes." The word is uncommonly small inside his blocky speech balloon. The view of the comic is raising to the higher parts of the room, showing only the top of Tenzō's head, and the cellar-style windows. At the window above Kakashi's bed, there's something small and green in the corner.

"Liar." Kakashi accuses. "I did go back!" Tenzō says. "Just...briefly." The cellar-style window above Kakashi's bed is in full view now, and its clear that the green is fabric, which ends over tan skin.

The final panel is bright and warm, afternoon sun casting shadows that reflect the blue of the sky in an somewhat unkempt alley. Crouched on weedy cobblestones in the shadow of a dumpster, and above a small pit in the wall is Might Gai. His lips are pursed and his brow is troubled as he listens to Kakashi end the conversation. "Go home and get some sleep, Tenzō. The Hokage is bound to put us on rumor duty anyway," Kakashi says in more confident, if still wavering speech balloons that drift out of that small pit in the wall, where the cellar window must lead.

/END ID]

[capisback]

I really like that we get to see Deuce’s averse reaction to finding out that Ace is Gol D Roger’s son. Before, all we’ve seen of people hating Ace for his blood are thugs in bars and the Marines, and while there’s a crowd of people watching his execution, it’s large and impersonal, and very easy to brush it off. But seeing Deuce, being able to read his thoughts, feels strangely personal, and really hammers home that Ace’s secret is big and people, normal, every-day people, really would hate him for it

[megatron-fucks]

The absolute insanest thing about the Cybertronian civil war - beyond the question of how many millions of years it lasted or planets it destroyed or terrible evils it caused - is that it seems in most continuities to exist without the support of a functioning society.

(When it comes to the economy of warfare, I'm more familiar with non-industrial societies, where the costs of war are often much clearer. But in any society, a full-time soldiers is supported by the excess value produced by workers.)

Like if you think of the world wars (probably the closest comparison I'm aware of) - the entire non-fighting population had to change how they were living in order to provide the resources for the war. In WWI, the number of women in paid work nearly doubled, and the kind of work they were doing changed drastically to favour industries (like nursing and manufacturing) that directly supported the war. And that was still enormously difficult. That was nations pushing themselves to the absolute edge of possibility to survive.

With Cybertron, the nations don't survive. Most of the time, Cybertron is post-apocalyptic. And they are somehow still fighting a full on war.

You do definitely see evidence of this, at least in G1 and TFP (and probably others I'm less familiar with) because the Decepticons' main priority is energon. In G1, the Decepticons are relying on the human workforce to produce that value, which their soldiers then take by force.

That's comparable to looting by human armies, which is a significant part of how armies support and fund themselves. It doesn't usually provide enough resources to actually support the whole army but it makes sense that Cybertronian technology is efficient enough to make that work. (Worth noting that looting is a war crime.)

In TFP, the Decepticons seem to have a large mining workforce (equivalent to a human agricultural workforce) who are also capable of fighting if required. Things vary over the course of the show, but at the beginning it seems like actually a pretty close analogue to a human army: there's a huge number of workers producing food, who seem to make just enough to support their own operations + a little extra to support a small handful of dedicated soldiers.

In IDW1 the only really clear evidence I'm aware of is provided by Tarn at Grindcore. The Decepticons at that stage are apparently using prisoners both as a source of labour (if Tarn's promise about transportation has at least that core of truth to it) and as a source of materials.

(POW labour has historical precedent, though I don't know any examples where it was essential to an army's function. The second thing is a little more complicated but still, not a usual method.)

I think there's other stuff in IDW1 to suggest that both sides use their soldiers to scout for resources and that the Decepticons use materials from conquered planets to support the war effort, but I can't think of any other examples that suggest an actual workforce.

There is other stuff in terms of medicine and technology, and probably something to be said for construction, which I can make another post about if people are interested. But in terms of "providing the basic resources essential to a war," that's all I got.

Anyway there's a trend through all of that which is the interesting thing: the Decepticons are the only ones who can actually maybe support their own war effort. Which makes sense: if you have a standing army, there are civilians somewhere doing the work of supporting them. And the only way we really consider it acceptable to take resources from civilians and give it to the army is taxation.

So it makes sense that only example I could think of where Autobots can clearly say "This is where our resources come from" is the one where there's still a functioning state.

The possible exception to that is foraging, which is something that ancient armies relied on to various extents. Generally the stuff I've read said that foraging for the bulk of your resources is an act of desperation that leaves your soldiers angry, hungry and tired, and makes it very hard to actually fight a war. But foraging to supplement your resources should be encouraged under most circumstances, especially if it means your enemy can't use those resources.

I think that in TFP, there's some implication that the Autobots are surviving off stockpiles? I feel like it's actually a fairly realistic example, because the Autobots on Earth are clearly a small, desperate group struggling to survive without a greater support system.

At the start of the show, IIRC, they're acting as scouts while keeping an eye out for energon, which is sensible. But their "foraging" duties seem to fall to the wayside once they find Decepticons.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

What authors would you suggest to get a feel of what the essence of America and being American is? Both culturally and politically

like what authors capture the spirit of america? i have a few people that come to mind. as usual, the list is probably not exhaustive. anyway...in no particular order:

emerson, thoreau, edgar allen poe, hawthorne, alexander hamilton, john adams, samuel adams, melville, hemingway, thomas jefferson, james wilson, mark twain, kerouac, faulkner, henry charles carey, henry clay, jack london, dickinson, steinbeck, gaddis, john r. commons, hunter s. thompson, william s. burroughs, mccarthy, richard t. ely, ben franklin, nabokov, veblen, john dewey, peirce, quine, rorty, john muir, clarence ayers, james fenimoore cooper, hart crane, h.d., philip k. dick, pynchon, irving, edward bellamy, hartshorne, henry miller, ethan allen, whitman, longfellow, wadsworth, philip freneau, ezra pound, dickinson, simon patten, john jay, john p. young, j. hector st. john, laura ingalls, john dickinson, willa cather, etc.

[wykart]

@Ken Levine give me custody of your ‘daughter’

[4lph4kidz]

i’m too tired to write about why the crockerharleybertlishes are all way more fucked up then their relatively cheerful and emotionally expressive exteriors imply. someone else do it for me /j