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210427 Cheng Yi for Bazaar Men May 2021 Issue

Red blazer, red tailored shorts, and socks all by Fendi

Shirt by Lanvin

Black strap accessory by Simone Rocha

Boots by Dsquared2

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So they're like a found family, except explicitly modelled after the American nuclear family, like that one's like the mom, and that one's like the dad, and those two are like siblings. What? No, they're definitely fucking. Yeah, they refer to each other as siblings while they're doing it.

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"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

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it's been approximately one hour and this polycule is already falling apart at the seams

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A recent personal project

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and i don’t think i’m wrong for saying it either.

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P*E*A*N*U*T*S for your viewing pleasure! There will be more of these, I'm already working on another with Henry and Radar!

Due to popular request, these are all available on my inprnt :]

Share this with a special old man in your life <3 (Note: you can be an old man at the ripe age of very young if you put your mind to it!)

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It’s come to my attention that some people are traversing the interwebs of fandom without ever hearing of the Ms. Scribe Story or the Cassandra Claire Debacle.

At surface level, this is concerning because they are awesome stories, and everyone’s life is made a little better when they find an awesome story.

On more serious levels, fandom is a wacky place, full of people doing wacky, occasionally damaging things to each other. Some of that has evolved, but some of it is the same as it ever was. History rocks because you can learn from the mistakes of others, and maybe hurt people a little less in the future. Fandom being a giant, convoluted web of passion, some history that could use sharing goes missed.

The two stories linked are from early 2000s Harry Potter fandom. The Ms. Scribe Story is a tale of one person’s aggressive use of sockpuppets to work their way up fandom hierarchy. The Cassandra Claire Debacle is about how the top name in that fandom hierarchy is a plagiarist.

They’re prime examples of fandom being fandom in intensely negative ways. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brand of fandom toxicity that isn’t on display in some way within these write-ups, and while that is admittedly sort of depressing, having things to point at that make you stop and think, “Wait, I’ve seen this before, this is not a thing I want to be part of,” can keep you out of some of the deeper fandom pitfalls.

They are also deeply fascinating reads. If you haven’t explored them before, or only know the summary versions, give them a shot.

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it is always really palpable to me that like, when we discuss mental illness and advocacy, there's a large percentage of people who conceptualize the "real crazies" -- people with psychosis or schizophrenia, people with dissociative disorders that significantly impact their memory or day to day functions, people with recurrent suicidal episodes, people with actionable and severe self harm impulses, so on -- as an Other category that can't possibly be presently engaging in the conversation. you'll see this a lot especially when discussing things like mandatory reporting and institutionalization with people whose relatively mild and manageable mental illness have crafted them into self-declared experts; they'll tell you very confidently "hey, the institutionalization thing is actually overblown -- i've always been totally honest with my therapist and there's never been an issue! those laws are just there in case you say something really crazy to them." it betrays this real confidence on their part that there's no way they're talking to one of those frightening and unpredictable mentally ill people, the ones those laws are really there to punish save from themselves, because they'd of course be able to tell right away if somebody was the sort of irrational actor who needs and deserves to have their autonomy stripped at a moment's notice

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handsome women covered in blood. reblog.

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SINGLE LAAAADIESSSSSS x di feisheng because I embody "be the change you want to see in the world"

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Sorry I didn’t reply to your messages I was busy being that one homie that’s not gonna make it

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For the last time dude, my leitmotif sounds exactly like it always has. There is no symbolism for creeping corruption in there