#you're not obligated to like me

[queenofthedork]

I have like 30mins of downtime before I have to leave and go to my other job, but just wanted to pop in real quick to say that I love every single one of you lovelies that stumbles across my blog. You have no idea how happy it makes me to see likes/reblogs on my account and I appreciate you lots *hugs and kisses* 💜🩵

[beaft]

anyway i'm always fascinated by the people who think that trans men transition purely to escape misogyny and gain social capital. idk how it is for other people, but since i transitioned i have not only experienced more misogyny than i ever did before but also lost access to the public spaces and support systems that might have helped me deal with it

[sylvrndoodles]

vortex, goddess of the sea, storms, and lightning

a homebrew goddess for my dnd game!

she's worshipped mostly by sailors, who rely on her generosity to make it through storm and sea monsters and arrive at their next port. those who die at sea are said to have either jilted her, or been appealing enough to be taken as one of her many lovers. her lightning can illuminate safe passage through a storm, or set your ship on fire.

those who are chosen to serve her as clerics and paladins are unusually beautiful, and are ceremoniously and literally married to her (though she doesn't care at all about monogamy). Those who serve her are all so desperately in love with her that they would throw themselves into the sea if she asked.

[reasonsforhope]

Future Crunch just paywalled their good news for "Energy" and "Technology"??? Which it looks like is about half of all their Good News?? (x)

I'm not particularly surprised because I WAS wondering how they made enough money to stay solvent, but I am dismayed

Partly on my own principles and partly because this kinda feels like it does/should go against their whole ethos??

Like if your big mission statement is "If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves" (x) ....maybe you shouldn't paywall those stories???

That sounds very counterproductive and like you're taking access to good news away from a lot of people who need/want to hear it the most??? Esp in people in countries whose currency is much weaker than the US dollar??

[thelaurenshippen]

genuinely think it's good and healthy to follow at least one person in each of your fandoms who reblogs good gifsets but has just...absolutely dogshit takes on the show, or who ships that ship you despise. keeps things fresh. keeps things grounded. you gotta stay humble

[beanghostprincess]

Shuggy hc: so you know that scene in WCI where Sanji compliments Pudding's 3rd eye and she gets all flustered because it's the first time that anybody hasn't made fun of it? Well the same thing happened with Buggy and Shanks as kids with Shanks complimenting Buggy's nose. Except Buggy lowkey imploded in the inside afterwards.

What if I start sobbing so loud my neighbors hear me????

Okay, first of all, I absolutely love that Sanpu scene and Oda broke my heart into a million pieces when it happened. So you mentioning it with Shuggy makes me go insane.

Obviously Buggy is insecure about his nose. This is a canon fact and of course people make fun of it. So he doesn't expect Shanks to stare at him like he hung the moon and the stars. Shanks says it so casually too. "I like your nose" "You're so pretty" "I like you" and it makes Buggy lose it and not know what to do with all the feelings his best friend is making him have. To Shanks, loving Buggy is just that simple. He just has to say it out loud. But Buggy isn't good at this and he doesn't know what he feels for Shanks yet and he wants to keep this cool facade. So Buggy just yells at him something that neither of them can understand and storms out quickly to hide in their room. Shanks is left there confused and wondering what the hell he did wrong this time, when Rayleigh stands right next to him asking: What the hell did you do to him now?

Shanks: I- I don't know???? I was telling him about uh- Y'know.

Rayleigh: No, I don't know.

Shanks: I told him I liked his nose and he-

Rayleigh: Now that's a good one, kiddo. He's not talking to you for a while.

Shanks: But WHY??? I did nothing wrong!!

Rayleigh: Welcome to love life, where you fuck it up even when you don't do anything wrong.

Shanks: It sucks

Rayleigh: You say that now Meanwhile, Buggy is having the biggest gay panic in their room, hiding in a corner and looking at himself in a mirror wondering why the fuck he feels this way for a stupid, dumbass guy like Shanks.

[hi-i-just]

Zack is so fun as a character bc when it comes to his relationships, whether the nature is romantic or platonic it still works. The chemistry is so fire, the feelings of love and care are sincere. Zack loves the people in his life, the people loves him back. Whether they're similar to him in personality or complete opposites — it still hits off. Zack and Aerith? The OG, first love forreal. Zack and Cloud? The loyalty, the dedication. Zack and Cissnei? Genuine appreciation and trust. Zack and Sephiroth? Treated each other like actual people. Zack and Tseng? The extra mile, the exception. You genuinely can't lose when it comes to shipping with this guy

[bookshelfdreams]

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[turtlecleric]

Hey cleric? Random ahh thought but you got recommended to me

What should I expect?

Hello dear! Oh. Ummmm.

1) Being insane about Symphony. I'm deeply, deeply unwell over it.

2) Very short fics (if you'd even call them that) and imagines that sometimes occur multiple times a day but more often are very spread out

3) A fair amount of dark (?) content, including non con/dub con, somno, yandere behavior, and anything and everything angsty (mind the warnings, tread carefully)

[antirepurp]

// long ago i was imagining // the stars // crown on my head

[k7tt1]

Anyway, since everyone is making a PSA about it, here's mine: it literally makes no difference to me whether you like or dislike Lilith. Hate her, love her, I really don't care. Any of the characters,

Honestly, I don't even care if you dislike Kitty 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Know this is a safe zone for everyone ✌️ That's all I got to say,

[introspectivememories]

touch-starved bernard dowd is sooo canon to me

[bogunicorn]

ruminating on the current neil gaiman stuff, cw transphobia, talk about rape/assault

"believe all victims" doesn't mean "blindly believe every story of victimization when there are some clear indications that there's some serious bullshit going on." i think some people reacting to this shit with gaiman are, strangely, being a little too... not optimistic, but not being realistic about the sorts of shit that conservative/right wing publications will do to push their agenda. they don't need to be accurate, empathetic, or correct. they don't even need to commit to or prove or stand behind what they publish. they just need to shove something into the public conversation that suits their agenda and gets the big reaction, and then if they need to do so later for legal reasons, they'll post a quiet retraction that nobody will read and won't ultimately matter

these people are incredibly predatory, and will happily seek out people with legitimate grievance to encourage them to frame their experiences in a way that fits their agenda. with gaiman (and tennant and sheen, for that matter) clearly being a TERF target for being vocally supportive of trans people, it feels relevant to bring up joanne here. joanne has legitimate trauma. she was raped by a man. she has PTSD and her fear of men is something that's real and deserves sensitivity -- but her relationship with TERFs has morphed that legitimate grievance into "the existence of trans women is rape" and a whole host of other wild shit. and i do think she believes all that! i do think her fear of trans women, her absolute conviction that all trans women are deceivers and their every action is predatory, is very real. and i don't think she started out that way, that fear and distortion of reality was the clear and obvious result of being radicalized by TERFs who flattered her, supported her when she felt isolated, and validated all of her fears so well that when they wanted to give her new ones, she readily adopted them

that's to say that i don't put any fucking stock in the right-wing outlets or the podcast that the gaiman accusations happened on, and i don't put it past them to dig into legit grievances -- that the relationships were volatile and emotional, or that he had them while married and wouldn't leave his wife, or that they ended in messy ways, as possible examples -- and poke and prod and revisit the details until the stories conveniently fit into the perspective they want

which they then (supposedly) sat on for months until dropping the podcast episode like a tactical nuke right when david tennant and michael sheen are actively beefing with the conservatives over their pet issue and taking down gaiman's reputation would muddy the conversation and make it easier than ever to turn it into their classic "trans people and their supporters are predators" routine

i'm saying this serves the TERF agenda too well for me to take anything at face value here

[cosmic-ships]

I deleted the ask but the obligatory "You aren't talking about Kylo so that means you don't love him" asks have unwillingly arrived.

Are you fucking serious? Yes, I am very hyperfixated on Adam (sackler) does that mean I've completely forgotten about Kylo and magically lost all feelings for him? Absolutely NOT.

Kylo is and always will be my number one, ultimate main. Hell I changed my username to something that aligns with my ship (the nickname he calls me!)

I am always thinking about Kylo in one way or another. Just because I'm not talking about him (publically here) a lot doesn't mean I love him any less! Yes I am pissed at this. Yes I am annoyed that whoever sent that had the audacity to think such a thing.

I love Kylo with my entire being, if you stuck around and seen my gush posts about him you'd know. You would ALSO know that Sackler is actually right up there with Kylo in terms of how I feel about him as he continually helps me through things irl (mental state)

this man is also literally helping me to love my own body because of the way he canonical acts as well which I have posts of. Hell I have a little fic called Motivated about it

So don't come in here and tell me how to feel. Both him and Kylo mean a lot to me in different ways so sit down and shut your mouth.(directed at the anon)

Gonna idk...go make coffee or something now. This anon really upset me

[lloydfrontera]

i don't think theo would relapse after rakiel dies but i do think he would overcorrect so hard to avoid it he'd end up developing a whole new eating disorder because of it. not really starving himself as much as controlling everything he eats down to the tiniest bite. not allowing himself to deviate from his diet at all and feeling extemely guilty and anxious when he does. in a horrible situation where nothing feels right and there's so little he can do to fix it, this is the one thing he has control over. this is the one thing he can do to make sure things go as well as they can. he fucked up once and rakiel had to step in to fix him but now his brother is gone and there'll be no one to catch the pieces if he breaks again so. he just has to make sure he never does. he has to control himself because there's no one now to extend a hand to help him up if he falls.

[astralscrivener]

aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh