#EVERYTHING is made up

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

<3

[bearotonin-international]

Hey y’all it’s Monday

A good time to take a minute to paws and reflect on how much you wish it’s still the weekend

[lukashaa]

Pathologic fans you did it. You convinced me to let my unibrow grow in

[1trilliongrams]

Hey remember that time it came out that Experian compromised the data of every adult in the US with any credit reported? I still think about that from time to time.

[scentedluminarysoul]

Talked to a terf once who insisted, as they all do, that there are only two biological sexes, and everyone falls into either male or female, no exceptions

I said that, no, intersex people do exist, and it's not that simple

She insisted tsht intersex people can also clearly be categorized into either male or female

I spent some time explaining that that's simply not true, they're INTERSEX and it's not tsht simple. And besides, this line of thinking is what caused doctors to perform unnecessary surgeries on intersex children, to MAKE them look like they fit into one category or the other

And she. Said. That she was strictly against those surgeries, but sex is still binary and everyone can be out into male or female, no exceptions, it will be easy to tell

And I tried so hard and for so long to get her to understand that it's this MINDSET that spawned the IGM of intersex kids. Again and again she said surgeries bad, but intersex people are still only male or female

She wasn't hostile, she was stupid and unwilling to change her mind. The cognitive dissonance was insane

I gave up after hours of trying

Idk, sometimes terfs and other people, even leftists, live in some fantasy world where everyone is nice and nobody does harm and nobody would ever harm another and doctors are perfect and never do wrong and are never humans with their own opinions and bigotries

Must be nice. But sadly, reality is different

you only need to look at the way being intersex is often referred to by doctors and by TERFs to understand the damage the "sex is biological" rhetoric does

in case you're not familiar, the term I'm referring to specifically is DSD or Disorders of Sex Development

to someone who truly deeply believes that sex is natural, being intersex will always be disordered or defective. they insist on continuing to label us (intersex folk) as "men with DSD" or as "women with DSD" in order to reinforce the sex binary. they will not let intersex people be proof of the truly social nature of sex as a category, because they will not even see us as intersex. delete "sex is biological, gender is social" from your vocabulary. please and thank you

[cyandocs]

Initially I was the type of person that would decisively type out "Okay" every time but after realizing Ok was in fact a weird fake acronym for "Oll Korrect" basically for the hand sign and that kinda changed my brain chemistry toward language in general

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[crowwwzy]

Change of color / growing up

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[phaoi]

may i introduce..

THE phRATS

[egophiliac]

doylist explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: probably something about space constraints and making sure two sprites in one seat aren't covering anyone else when they're not in focus

watsonian explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: he snuck in and is hiding from the teachers, don't give him away 🤫

(I've reached my limit of unsuccessful attempts at pulling them before I need to save keys for Halloween, so I've been living vicariously through youtube videos...but the fact that Gidel just pops up from under the desk to wave his arms around happily is really testing my resolve. D: I'm gonna die when they finally get to do alchemy...)

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[joshpeck]

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

[safesthaveninexistence]

*jawdrops* *profound chills....*

Believe in yourself, you are the strongest being there is✨️

[asthedeathoflight]

I think an underrated angle on 2x05 is something that either Jacob or Assad said in some interview somewhere, which is that in that episode Louis is addicted to heroin. Thats why he has that whole stash of drugs that he gives to Daniel, that's why he gives Daniel the drugs even though he's already got him alone. He didn't just use those 128 boys for sex he was using them to get high. Bring them home, get them to shoot up, and then drain them to get that secondhand high.

It clarifies something that's always confused me about that scene, which is why Armand saves Daniel the first time. He wouldn't save Daniel as a person, he clearly knows Daniel needs to die, but he's not seeing Daniel as a person there. Daniel is just a substance. He rips him away from Louis to stop him from using.

And i think that adds a whole other layer to the fight he and Armand have to think that this is Louis on a bender, with Armand cleaning up after him because he's not stable enough to. Louis in the bed for a week isn't just healing from the burns, he's going through withdrawal. Him at the table with Daniel giving him the "bright young reporter" speech is probably the first time he's been sober in months.

It adds another layer to Armand's desperation, that Louis has been running from both Armand and himself in this way, and of course Armand wants to erase that memory. Of course he wants to pretend that that fight never happened. Not just to protect himself but in a way to protect Louis from having said those things. When he describes the fight to Louis afterwards, he says "you said the worst things you've ever said to me." And he doesn't really know how to forgive Louis for that so he just wants to bury this rock-bottom moment and move on like it never happened. After all, Louis was high, he didn't really mean it, but if he remembers then maybe he might think that he had a point. Better to wipe the whole experience away.