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[calamity-crows]

They're also known for walking holidays around the shire so that's not accurate either. Shire's pretty big.

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

[h0use-fly]

what can be improved w this chat

[thetisming]

amatonormativity: a romantic partner should be the most important person in EVERYONE'S life

NOT amatonormativity: MY romantic partner is the most important person in MY life, but i understand this is not the same for other people

allosexnormativity: EVERYONE should have sex and sex is something EVERYONE needs/wants/should want

NOT allosexnormativity: I PERSONALLY enjoy sex and love having sex because it makes ME feel good, but other people dont feel the same and that's okay

platonormativity: having friends is important for EVERYONE and EVERYONE needs/has/should have friends

NOT platonormativity: having friends is important to ME and I PERSONALLY love having friends, but there are people who dont and theres nothing wrong with that

faminormativity (is that the word?): family is important for EVERYONE and EVERYONE needs to have their family

NOT faminormativity: family is important to ME and I PERSONALLY need my family with me, but other people dont feel the same and i understand that

lovenormativity (again, not sure if this is a word): EVERYBODY feels love and there's something wrong wiith you if you dont

NOT lovenormativity: I PERSONALLY feel love and love people, but not everyone does and that's completely okay!

NOT amatonormativity: i dont have friends/have any desire to have friends, i am happy with other relationships/no relationships at all

NOT platonormativity: i dont have any desire to be in a romantic relationships, and i am happy with my platonic relationships

NOT allosexnormativity: i like hooking up with people and having one night stands or friends with benefits

NOT faminormativity: i care about my family deeply and am close with family members

NOT lovenormativity: i feel love for people i care about

it's not normative to personally enjoy something, so long as you respect that other people simply arent like you and aren't going to like the same things as you. taking down normativity is a two way street, allos and aspecs need to do it. support your local aros, aces, apls, afams and other aspecs today! remember to challange all normativities, and to not enforce other normativity by saying how bullshit other normativities are!

nothing is universal. romance is not universal. sex is not universal. friendship is not universal. family is not universal. love is not universal. nothing is universal.

[hazey-magnolia]

If you honestly call anyone a “transandrophobia truther” pls get off my blog. Like omg what??? It just sounds weird first off?

Me when i say transmen experience a specific intersection of transness and masculinity and now suddenly this means that i hate transfems and im a whiner? (this is making fun of people who say this)

Trans misogyny is real, but so is transandrophobia? They can both exist?

[isowizard-handler-of-suggestions]

HECK FREAKING YEAH WE ARE SO UP!!!

[mommyclaws]

Three year old unfinished art. For the starving CrookedBlue tag.

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

heloooo im back with a stupid fucking image in your inbox … do what you will with this one have fun

Act two really got him I tell you what

[demiboydemon]

I wish I was friends with Dr Doofenshmirtz. He’s the perfect man to be friends with. He’s the dumbest genius, the best father, evil in a fun way, and he even has a borderline homoerotic rivalry with a secret agent. I want to be his friend so badly.

[project-sonadow]

hey just so you know i NEED chicken run au now. that's going to occupy my mind forever until it happens. why did you do this to me.

actually if you could pitch your idea to me that would be great bc this revelation came to me not by logic but in a cosmic blast of wisdom so I’m a genuinely a little stumped on what a sonadow chicken run au would even entail but I’m desperate to interpret these visions

[snailstrees]

i geniunely fucking suck at showing care and understanding for others but i want yall to know that yall matter. dont feel guilty if you still feel attachment to this comic, if characters still matter to you, as long as youre not condoning any of kc's actions. im really, really sorry for all of those who were affected, before or after the doc. please stay alive, please stay calm. take a step back if necessary, try to focus on other interests of yours if it makes you feel better. but we're in this together. yall are awesome fucking people, yall are strong, and you can do this.

[2aceofspades]

Heroes in a Half-shell

Turtle Power

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~Lil sappy storytime incoming~

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It's kind of a long story so I'll try to make this short, but I got my blood drawn today and I am not great with needles (to say the least). However! The wonderful phlebotomist there just so happened to be a ✨TMNT fan✨ They were also so patient with me and very attentive gaaaah I felt very seen 💙

It meant so much to me that they were open to talking about silly turtle stuff with me. And so, I know I don't normally draw the portal duo, but I wanted to draw my fav turtle and theirs to commemorate in a way. I am so grateful, and honestly, very lucky to have met a fellow TMNT fan out in the wild today hehe (:

[rosquinn]

Thank you for your input and for sharing your thoughts !! I am quoting the uncensored version and I'm afraid I don't really see what you mean, so if you feel like elaborating or showing me which parts of the novel you're referring to I would be more than happy to read it and discuss our thoughts

One of my Dorian Gray hot takes is that there was absolutely nothing in Dorian and Basil's relationship that was healthy. I keep seeing posts like "Basil's love for Dorian was so pure, that's why the portrait was so pretty and the real villain of the story is Wotton because he corrupted it"

As I see it, yes, Wotton did corrupt him, but saying Basil's feelings for Dorian were pure is simply inaccurate to the story. Basil says himself he merely sees Dorian as an artistic ideal [Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all; ch1] and admitted he (a 10 year older man, who had power over him) tried to isolate him from other people and "keep him to himself". Furthermore, Basil also plays a big role in the way Dorian sees himself and his beauty, by painting him everyday and not maintaining any conversation with him, he's indirectly reaffirming what Wotton tells him: people only care about you because you're pretty and young. There is also this scene from the second chapter:

Dorian Gray turned and looked at him. "I believe you would, Basil. You like your art better than your friends. I am no more to you than a green bronze figure. Hardly as much, I dare say.

The painter stared in amazement. It was so unlike Dorian to speak like that. What had happened? He seemed quite angry. His face was flushed and his cheeksburning.

"Yes," he continued, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."

Hallward turned pale and caught his hand. "Dorian! Dorian!" he cried, "don't talk like that. I have never had such a friend as you, and I shall never have suchanother. You are not jealous of material things, are you?-you who are finer than any of them!"

Dorian is even dealing with a suicidal ideation over what Wotton has told him and the way Basil sees him, he needs emotional validation, he's asking to be told there's more than him than that, and Basil's reaction is just─ no. You're prettier than any other object (indirectly comparing him to one, too).

Basil's view of Dorian influences how he sees people as much as Wotton's. For example, to Dorian Sybil was only what she pretended to be, he loved her performance, her acting, how she did exactly what the public wanted (which can apply to Dorian himself), not the real her. She was only an artistic ideal to him, she meant to him exactly what Dorian meant to Basil. He ignored her desires, pain and everything not related to what he wanted to see, since that's what he's been taught he must appreciate.

I also disagree with the interpretation of the portrait as a "pure" reflection of Basil's love (I would personally rather describe it as an obsession, though) and Dorians soul because it's not. At least not entirely. Part of the point of the book is that everyone only saw the part of Dorian they wanted: the portrait represents Basil's idolized version of him, what he wanted to see and how he refused to see Dorian as a person instead of an artistic ideal. That's why he tried to make him redeem himself, because he hated seeing his version of Dorian shatter into pieces. It was never Dorian entirely, not even after aging terribly because that's the result of Basil and Wotton's influence. The portrait was not his real soul, it was a modified version of it other people played with because nobody cared about the whole thing, and the influence was so big those parts became his whole being. It was just an idolized, molded version at first but turned into his real self with the time and the sins. Dorian's soul (the portrait) was constructed upon what others appreciated about him, so when Wotton motivated him to sin, because Dorian's potential to be terrible was what mattered to him, it became ugly and terrible. There was absolutely nothing pure about that portrait since day 1.

[iristhemuse]

Journalers..HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DO IT???

No really , like, how do you make your life so interesting you can say a different thing that happened every single day??Like do you guys just randomly have the most incredibly exciting life ??Cuz when i journal it's always the same 3 things that happen every single day, how do you people manage to idk go out every other day , buy a ton of cool but kinda useless stuff just for the pretty of it?? :""l

[lucent-roase]

@for-those-who-wait so basically i read the word “huntlow” or just “Hunter” and “Willow” in the same paragraph so i accidentally hit the ground running with something completely off plot…

also i wanted an excuse to draw Willow in a dress and jeans because i do that

school has started. hahhaaahhaahahhahahahahahahaa my sanity levels are huntlow

[viasonlinediary]

Hate to say, but I think if any Sevika ship became canon I'd kill myself

That's literally my wife??? Wtf