#1000% agree

[kuhulua]

1000% agree!

[thoughtsofapessimistttt]

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

[crypticpine]

Hey I think your tags are a lil important here

[choccy-milky]

...nowhere is off limits for seb 🥴 (scene from the office bc ive been rewatching clips lately and when i saw this one i HAD to redraw it as them LMAO)

[stankworth]

after many years of being strong // may you have the chance to be gentle again

[sharp-fanged13]

What a wonderful occassion to remember this happened and is canon af:

[woodox-earthtaurus]

So accurate, esp as a disabled person who has experienced these things

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

[triona-tribblescore]

This song is on my Peepaw playlist purely for the fact that every time I hear it all I can think of is Future Leo reflecting on his past self. There would deffo be some anger and frustration there to want to tell him to "get his act together" and to just listen or something uvu

[wayfinder-family-lover]

So I was on the internet and ends up discovering Kong is one centimeter taller than Thomas which mean Teerak is one centimeter taller than Muenfah! And idk I found this the cutest thing ever!!

[moonslitmuse]

u u wa wa uwa (chiikawa beams your jayvik)

[autumnblooms]

@mac-and-thefox 👀

Crim I am fascinated by the idea of pious Dew. Tell me more?

i have so many dew thoughts!

the idea kind of started as a joke about dew being really into the hell satan bit of year zero- he really goes ham on stage during it

and people were like wow this dude loves the devil which like obviously yes it’s their whole thing but then i was kinda swishing around why he might be more into it than the others

and i have a whole fic that i wrote like last year that i never posted about how he transitioned from a water ghoul to a fire ghoul and at the heart of it what they’re telling him is that it’s a gift to be able to serve Him in such a noble way, that this is an amazing thing they’re offering

and it isn’t really an offer it’s an order disguised as a choice, but it all happens so fast that he doesn’t really wrap his head around it and he really internalizes what they told him

it was His will that dew be changed, a reward for dew’s endless devotion. it was fucking horrible and it hurt more than anything he could have ever imagined- it still hurts him to this day, but it was for Him and that makes it all ok

so either it meant something- either dew’s transformation played an integral role in His plan or whatever… or dew let them ruin him for nothing. and he refuses to accept that as the truth

so he prays every night before bed and every morning the minute his eyes open. he even prays in his head before meals and he never ever misses a service. dew loves Him and he knows that He loves dew back

[citrine-elephant]

leon trading himself for a hostage.

does he stop to think, or does he immediately take the deal, the civilian goes in exchange for him?

so caught up in his emotions, it happens so fast... and the blood spray across his face sticks with the remnants of who that person once was moments ago. shot in the head and disposed of, right as leon fell into the trap. all a ploy to bring him in, right into the spider's web.

and the venom from the spider's fangs. its more of his own making, no?

not only does leon get to blame himself for getting them killed, but now? knowing his actions will lead to more lives at stake trying to rescue him.... but hey, that's life, isn't it? he'll serve his sentence if he survives. the rest of his miserable life haunted by ghosts <3

[demeterdefence]

i want so badly to like this scene because on the surface it has so many elements that could have and might have worked if they were implemented any differently but god it's still such a surface level display of a plot that's been hanging around since season one.

like yeah, she would be! persephone has not seen her rapist since he threatened to expose the photos he took of her during the assault, and it caused her to break down and run away. she knows he's manipulative, she's seen first hand how apollo has warped and twisted so many people to hide his crime, she knows he's powerful and dangerous. even surrounded by so many other people, the nineteen year old girl who was asleep in her bed is still terrified of apollo.

i have zero issue with this part - in fact, i really sympathized with persephone here. the idea of not only having to play nice with your abuser, to pretend to give them an ounce of respect or kindness they do not deserve, but knowing they are not sorry for what they did, knowing they want still to hurt you in some way? you can be queen of the underworld or the mortal realm or of all the gods, and that is still a horrifying prospect.

but then we run into this:

and it's not a bad sequence, or a problematic one; the issue is that persephone has not done any of the work to get to this point.

and by work, i'm talking about therapy, about sitting down and talking to someone about this on her own terms. she had one therapy session where her assault was tacked into the last five to ten minutes of the session; there is no indication she's ever gone back. she's been confronted on her assault - hades, hera, artemis, eros, and hermes have all found out about it without persephone telling them, or wanting to tell them, and hephaestus is aware (which it seems persephone does not know) because he deleted the photos of her assault. hera and hephaestus literally saw her assault in those photos. all of those people and instances are outside of persephone's control; she has never, not once, told any of her friends or her husband of what happened to her of her own choice. in at least three of those instances, she had to comfort the other person who is finding out about her trauma.

and that leads to another issue, which is that persephone has categorically refused to bring apollo to justice. in the past, when apollo had leverage over her, and she was still coming to terms with what happened to her, it was understandable that persephone didn't want anyone to know what happened. the problem is that in the time between her rape and current time, apollo has tried to kill one of her close friends, brought demeter to zeus in exchange for persephone's hand, attempted to kill the king of the gods, and is now weaponizing the deadly winter to become king. at least three members of the olympians know persephone was assaulted, including the queen of the gods. persephone has witnesses and backup and power, and she is still not using it to put apollo away.

so this promise to protect herself, to protect the nineteen year old girl who was alone with a monster - it rings a little too hollow for me. because persephone isn't protecting herself, she's running from herself. she's running from who she used to be and what she once was and what led her to that point. and as so many abuse victims can attest to, running often feels like the easiest thing, and the most protective thing. but at some point, you have to stop running, because it isn't protecting you - it's wearing you down.

persephone doesn't need to run anymore, and as much as i like to trounce this comic and all the narrative choices, i say this with a lot of compassion and remorse: this isn't protecting herself, and i want better for her.

[locatebiome]

anon I see you and I'm typing up a 1000 word response but I'm Not going to get it done before I need to go to work 👎 also want to be up-front with you: I probably know the same amount, if not less, actual facts about og herobrine as you do, so don't get your hopes up. sorry 💔💔

[murdleandmarot]

@margo-mania ya boy razzle, and a special guest….

(Dude you ate when you created razzle’s backstory, actually insane, 10/10 in terms of themes and motifs and implications, so so good)

[sojirosteacup]

Ugh, again I doubt Tumblr is going to die anytime soon. (I've been through a lot of "Twitter is gonna die for real" eras including the time it was fully banned in my country and it's still (unfortunately) up, and if that can survive its current management Tumblr can do it too.) (I've lived through a few "Tumblr is gonna die" events too)

But if it does die I don't wanna lose my boys over flowers analysis/translation posts. I don't care if I lose most of my other posts bc they are gif/art reblogs, and the art on my art blog is saved in my computer so I can just start over somewhere else.

But these posts... I have no idea how to save them with the images and all. I don't wanna install python just for that.

The best idea would be to create a blog on another website for them but Tumblr is like one of the last few blogging websites standing and I don't wanna go to dreamwidth (its image hosting barely exists and same for its userbase)