#worth it (lying)

[introspectivememories]

buggy who turns to shanks one night after they've reunited and says softly, with indecipherable look in his eyes and says, "i'm not in love with you anymore." and shanks, shocked beyond belief, heart aching with a want he didn't even know he had, with a need he hadn't even realized was there, thinks quietly to himself, i didn't know you ever were

[kraftykelpie]

Spent an hour ☝🏼 finger painting this bad boy on my Google notes

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Oh god, imagine after the war, Ron starts getting little packages from the men. And they're all cheap and silly things. A candy bar. A pencil. A little packet of tissues. A touristy shotglass. Stuff like that.

And all the notes are the same, "Pulled a Captain Spiers and lifted this just for you."

And it's so stupid and goofy. But also, it's so sweet. The boys don't really know how to check in on Speirs, and probably Luz goes, "We should just shoplift and send shit to him."

And so Ron gets a semi-regular delivery of shoplifted items. From his boys. Who need him to know they love him.

[pigglepiephi]

Takara finally said Taishin’s name and I cried!

I wondered here if part of the reason Takara had never said Taishin’s name, even in his own POV, was because he was too scared about what using it meant. After opening up about how much his feelings scared him, and being reassured by Taishin that he wanted to be with Takara and he wanted him to tell him everything, Takara finally freed himself of the anxiety he’d been carrying and said ‘Taishin’ out loud for the first time! He opened himself up fully to loving Taishin totally and without fear.

Urgh, that moment got me right in the feels 💕

I know using first names holds a lot of weight culturally but it always felt like not using Taishin’s was another way Takara was restraining himself… until now!

[i-am-become-a-name]

listening to a doctor who audio progression like :)

[puppyeared]

fake ep idea + doodles

[kaeya-senpai]

I DIDNT KNOW SCHOOL WOULD KICK MY ASS THIS HARD WHAT THE HELL

Turns out i hate this place more than i imagined im so fucking drained every day

[qqueenofhades]

I will shut up about the new mattress eventually, but that day will not be today.

[thelonelyshore-if]

The Lonely Shore Devlog #10

( 07/31/2024 ) Chapter One, Part Two: 100,890 words Added: +13,254 words Total Wordcount: 215,118 words

Short and not terribly exciting devlog. I, unfortunately, failed my goal of getting the update out by the end of the month. I'm super sorry, everyone! Summer is the busy season at work so I've had even less time than usual to write. Thankfully, things should be slowing down in a few weeks here.

The total update (as in, chapter one part 2 sans the library section) is at 80k words, so it's going to be substantial when it comes out.

The good news is that I've contacted beta testers and I've been getting some really great feedback! As I finish polishing up my last few incomplete scenes I'm going through and editing the finished parts. I've got a good workflow going, and I'm truly hoping the update will come soon.

Apologies again for the wait, and thank you all so much for your patience. I really hope that everyone will enjoy the update when it gets here <3

As always, a preview for your troubles!

[vegaseatsass]

Since I'm still thinking about Ming today... Let us compare Three Mings.

1. Ming when he's Scared*

*caught off guard by domesticity/affection and how much he likes and wants it

2. Ming when he's Trying*

*to fix the shit he does when he's scared, but still seem cool and controlled (of highest priority always)

3. Ming when he's Scared*

*deeply fucking terrified, scrambling, on the precipice of a complete break from sense and reason which he shan't recover from for years

And the thing is, which of these Mings do you think stays with Joe in his bones, in his gut. Which of these Mings are the Mings Joe remembers and thinks of as true?

Ming my babygirl, you have so so soooo much more Trying to try.

[t4tails]

they definitely had a four-way after this

[abirddogmoment]

I got out of bed and took my beautiful dog for a sunrise walk and she only wanted to sample the complimentary salad bar

[mandiemegatron]

"My love"

"My dearest"

"Precious girl"

What if I cried. What if I burst into tears and just openly started weeping. What then.

[shirogane-oushirou]

🦦🐠 Aquarium Birthday Date🐠🦦

i want to take ren to the ATL aquarium so badly 😣 i remember going with my roommates during a summer break trip and i want to baaaack it's been so loooong!!! there are so many cool things there that i think he would go nuts for (beyond the obvious otter exhibit. duh.)!!!!! i want to take him for his bday and go to dinner afterwards. it's HIS day and i WILL spoil him!!! 💕

(shirt pattern one and two)

[qweerhet]

i do also want to make a general PSA: the language of "failed men" and "failed women" as distinct gender categories referring to classes of people who have breached gender norms in a way that irrevocably disrupts their access to gender, particularly (but not exclusively) through transitioning or identifying with the "other" gender? that language has been in use in queer theory since at least the 90s.

it's so well-established that i cannot even begin to track down the initial coinage with a quick trip through google scholar. i'm finding publications in well-respected journals using the terminology dating back to the 90s just by scanning the first page of results. if you see someone claiming that transmisogynistic tumblr users made it up in 2023 to find a new way to sneakily call transfems men, they're just wrong, and in the worst case scenario, they're actively lying. if you have a fundamental problem with commonly-used basic transfeminist and queer theory terminology, take it up with the fucking university of chicago or something, idk, anything other than trying to convince 16-year-old trans people on tumblr dot edu that Big Transgender Blogging is intentionally lying to them about commonly accepted transfeminist theory.

[dragontatoes]

every other "transandrophobia isn't real" post I see on here is about how we not only don't care about trans women and complain constantly about them not caring about us but also actively wish to harm them for insinuating we have male privilege when in reality

my transfemme and transmasc friends and I do care about each other a lot. for many, we are the only safe people in their life for trans related things.

nobody tells the transfemmes to stay in their place or that the transmascs have it worse

nobody tells the transmascs we benefit from male privilege or that the transfemmes have it worse

the transmascs have expressed how painful it is to be infantilized and treated like they were peer pressured to sacrifice femininity, huh i fucking wonder what this could say about society's perspective on femininity which is attributed to all kinds of people regardless of identity

the transfemmes have expressed how painful it is to be feared or viewed as aggressive, huh I fucking wonder what this could say about society's perspective on masculinity which is attributed to all kinds of people regardless of their identity

nobody acts jealous of someone's gender related issues. we joke about how we wish we could donate boobs, uteruses, dicks, and hormones to each other. But if someone said "you're lucky" they'd be quickly and rightly told to not.

some of them are multigender and basically could not have skin in this fuckheaded game you've made up if you tried

You can't be talking to trans people in real life and still have it stuck in your head that trans people are the main perpetrators of any kind of transphobia, not without trying really hard not to pay attention. "Transandrophobia truthers" are simply not doing the shit you're saying they're doing. They're not even, like, a group. Idk, maybe they are on reddit or some other website I don't care about but let's try to focus on real things that matter for this post?

We can and should talk about how masculinity is vilified in its own right sometimes and how this leads to mistreatment of all kinds of trans people.