#Here's hoping you just? See it? I guess?

[stick-by-me]

Perfect in pairs <3

New follower sticker for: @tensensaiga!

[mafuyuakgae]

even if I came to love humanity in the end, there’s no proof I was ever here, right?

[madootles]

tma tma tma

[kimtaegis]

@ye-xiu's favourite taemin looks ↳ happy birthday, al! ✨

[psilliguykai]

Hey Jashers! So. I’ve recently seen a lot of people expressing how they feel the CJ community has been getting kinda toxic lately. It’s honestly really disheartening to see this happening, especially as this community and Chonny’s music/characters mean a lot to me. I guess this is all to say: if you feel the CJ community is getting toxic, let’s try to actually fix it. And no this doesn’t mean “make 10000 callout posts”. The Jash himself said both on Twitter/X and on the CJFS he’d rather all this (recent incident[s?]) be essentially acknowledged and dropped. If you want to keep this fandom alive and healthy (which I feel for the most part it already is! CJ is active in the discord server and is comfortable engaging with his fans and I think that alone is a really positive sign. Plus we have some incredible creativity and support !) do your best to contribute to the positivity and respectful, good content that we DO for the most part produce. You can make it clear that creeps, those looking to disrespect boundaries/privacy, etc. aren’t welcome here, but please try to do so effectively and only as needed. I know it’s kinda trite, but these people feed off attention and giving them more of it (regardless of whether it’s positive or negative) is only going to worsen the situation. In addition, if you can, please try to adopt the mindset that while flawed, this is an ultimately pretty good and respectful community. The more you express that it’s toxic and disgusting, the more it’s gonna live up to that.

[If you feel the need to distance yourself that’s totally fine and understandable too, just please do it for yourself and not as like. a statement I guess?? Idk I honestly haven’t seen anyone doing this I just thought it could be good to address]

TLDR: This community means a lot to me and I really desperately don’t want to watch it go to shit. Please for the love of whatever, let the toxicity die attention-less in the shade and just . be respectful. foster the actually positive parts of this fandom so they can prosper.

[PS: genuinely none of this is actually directed at anyone!! More just addressing a recent trend I’ve seen I guess??? Anyways uh yeah. Stay cool and stay hyped for chaos week I suppose :]]

[umem1ya]

"I adore you // love you too baby" YOU COOKED SO GOOD ACTUALLY, love the characterization details in ur works!!

HEY ANON LOL DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY??? DO YOU WANT TO SEE ME CRYING MY EYES OUT?!?!

but hm hi. 🤚 hello thank you for speaking about that hello hiiii 🤚 can I talk for a second about it pls 🤚

about endo never truly learning the idea of being lowkey about anything. about him being intense in every aspect of his life, about loving and being infatuated so deeply by everything he even dares to care about.

about how being in a secret relationship would hold him back so much. and he'd be pissed about it but he would understand it so well because he doesn't want to give up on fighting and also he doesn't want to give up on you. so it's whatever, he will try it. for the sake of having fun without hurting what you have, he will try it.

I wrote that part specifically by the idea of his s/o being aware of who the relationship is with. you gotta know that he adores the ground you walk, that he's obsessed with being around you, just like he's with other things, and that just means he loves you. its kinda fucked up. but when he says those stuff you can only hear "I love you" and honestly, takes a while to get used to it, but what else can you ask?

it's about the idea of helping him through it too, you know? constant reminder that when the infatuation is gone, there's still love. when the fights aren't fun or when shit happens, things get messy, there's still your love. :)

[wickjump]

falls to the floor and saves myself from the awkwardness of losing followers for having opinions they did not like (which is valid of them btw curate ur own online experience) by blocking everyone in a ten mile radius and by everyone i mean two people to spare myself

[mettywiththenotes]

LEAK SPOILER BUT BUT UHHHH HORIKOSHI DID IT MERA APPEARS ALARM ALARM MERA APEARERED !!!!!!!VSDHFHJAEHWRGETHJ our prayers have been answered !!!!!!!

!!!! HORI HAD TO DELIVER FOR THE MERA STANS

AFTER 3 AND A HALF YEARS OF NOTHING BUT HINTS, FINALLY, HE RETURNS

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE HIM AGAIN 😭😭 HE'S THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME GOING THROUGH THESE EPILOGUE LEAKS

Btw this is 8 years into the future, Mera was 39 pre-timeskip so now he's 47.. get that man a vacation look at him HE PROBABLY HASN'T HAD TIME OFF IN 10 YEARS

[cementcornfield]

Q: What has Jermaine Burton done to deserve a spot on the roster?

Tobin: He's done nothing, and he's going to have to start doing something quickly. We knew we were taking a risk. We felt comfortable that we could help him through some of the challenges he's had in the past, and we're going to continue to try to help him. But this is professional football, and you have to take accountability, and you have to be accountable to your teammates, your coaches, and the team that you're playing for, and he has to figure that out. He's got to figure that out fast. He's a very talented player, and we knew that there were risks in taking him. We knew there were rewards in taking him. We know what both of those are. We're hoping for the rewards. We're giving him the resources he needs to get to those rewards, but at the end of the day, you can't want it more for somebody than they want it for themselves. And we're hoping that Jermaine figures that out.

More from the interview with Duke on Jermaine's murky future with the team

[bucephaly]

People love finding random natives online and dumping their family story on them expecting a reassuring 'of course you're native!!' Lol

Sorry, if you don't wanna reconnect why would you even mention your supposed apache or whatever ancestry. If you aren't connecting to the tribe what does it even matter. 'I find it interesting' so you're using supposed native ancestry as a fun fact to make you look more interesting? How is that different than any other 'great grandma cherokee princess' person. Especially since you apparently have time to research the history of all your ancestral cultures but you don't have time to do genealogy

And of course when I tell them 'assume the stories are fake until you've got actual proof' they block me.

[doodleodds]

Happy Valentines, Akira. Happy Valentines, Asshole.

If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order: Hello, you fucking- Ah- Hello, Akira! Fuck off, why should I tell you- Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.

I don’t want your shitty gift. Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.

I hope I choke. They’re lovely, thank you.

Like hell. Likewise. There’s no way it’s just a coincidence. Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.

[winpocalypse]

Would really love to hear your thoughts on the topic of Sam + purity & religion as it is one of the leading themes of his character. How do you think it reflects on his perception of Dean, of himself, and their relationship as a whole?

fair warning friend this will get long and i might not make sense at all!!

first, what i find so interesting about sam and religion is that it was probably the first choice he ever made for himself (and that backfires of course). usually with religious characters you have a background, their family taking them to church, they associate religion with fond memories or with restriction and violence so they want out. sam is born a hunter, his dad is after some demon, they do not have any sort of religious tradition, and even so, he goes and chooses to believe, to pray. he was the one after it, as a little kid. he probably learned a thing or two with pastor jim, but he was the one who picked faith and hope. "i mean i was just a kid, do you think i knew? that i wasn't clean?" john kind of reiterates that, i mean, he knew about sam, and sam tells us that john treated him differently, it didn’t matter what he did, it was never enough. he even had a confession when he was a kid (would have loved to see a scene for that btw missed opportunity) and that is heartbreaking because he tried so hard to hold on to religion and faith, we see this in s1 and s2, but ultimately religion fails him. the angels don't even see him as human, cas first refers to him as the boy with the demon blood, basically he’s just some tool, to break the seal, to get dean to say yes, to be the devil’s vessel. he goes, he stands by god's side, and they still don't spare him a glance. it is bleak to see the evolution of sam's hope to sam understanding nobody's coming to save him, not even his brother, who pretty much becomes the president of the "crucify sam" club.

and here comes the double standards. you see, when dean goes to hell, he's tortured, he tortures, he enjoys it, he breaks the first seal, but that never changes how he views himself or how sam views him. he’s feeling guilty and he’s traumatized, but he does not carry a religious burden. and all of his actions are justified because he did it to save sam. he’s still dean, but with more baggage. but the minute sam does some ambiguous shit because he wants to save people and get revenge for dean? he's a freak beyond understanding. dean is not the religious one but he does believe his brother's tainted. he even uses it against sam "why did an angel tell me to stop you?" he could not give three shits about the angels but he knows sam does. and even years after the events of s4, even after how many years of sam in the cage being tortured, dean still maintains this belief. when sam says “do you think i knew i wasn't clean?” his response is “it’s not your fault” not “you’re not unclean”. he even has a list of sam’s wrongdoings that he could confess, one of them being “coming back without a soul”, like my dude, i’m pretty sure he can’t be blamed for that. but it doesn’t matter. he sinned that one time, there’s not enough punishment for that- much like in christian beliefs: if you sin, you deserve to spend eternity in hell. sam crucified himself for the world, but he did not get the jesus treatment, he was not idolized or turned into a saint, simply because he was not considered pure enough. it doesn’t matter that all of it- the demon blood, being lucifer’s vessel- were not in his control. and the worst part is that sam believes it too!!!!

another thing, spn shows us that dean lacks faith and sam tries to hold on to it. but that doesn’t mean only religion. again and again we see dean’s lack of faith in sam (he shows faith one time and that is swan song so his brother could jump in the hole) while sam believes so much in his brother, even after some nasty events (hello panic room), and that creates an interesting dynamic. dean is not religious but he has such a fixed christian view of the world: there's bad and there's good. monsters are bad, hunters are good for getting rid of the filth (that's why it hurts so much when he says he would want to hunt sam). its all pretty black and white. the way he tries to save sam is by punishing him, and that’s pretty catholic of him, huh. now, sam views the world in shades of gray, he doesn’t believe all supernatural beings are monsters, he believes people change, he believes in redemption, and when he tries to save dean is usually by trying to talk, by believing in him. even though sam loses faith in god and angels, he never loses faith in dean, but because he is who he is, he needs to have faith in something, and that does some damage. because he’s going to take whatever dean gives him, he’s going to forgive whatever dean does. that leaves their relationship severely unbalanced. much like the relationship between god and his followers. god can do whatever, unquestioned, and the devotees are the one who will pay for daring to deviate from his wishes. and the sad thing is, they will not question it. 

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[vaguely-concerned]

if we get a scene with varric in the fade somehow (listen if just bleeding a bit in the general proximity of the ritual was enough to soul-hook rook into the fade, population: solas district for the foreseeable future, what the hell is going to happen to varric after having the whole dagger buried in his chest?? I'm scared) where he lifts his head as if he heard a voice no one else can perceive and just goes "...hawke?", it'll be over for me

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

motorcycle sketch featuring cross!! >:)

[skunkes]

if someone is inspired by how you draw eyes or face shapes, or fabric folds, and they incorporate that into their style practice is that stealing from you and makes you uncomfortable? i know different artists have different boundaries and id like to stay within yours! so sorry that people have been copying you so much

no this is fine, especially since I myself draw eyes and faces and such in a variety of ways ^_^ and even then it wouldn't look exactly like "mine".

I wish there was a way to beam what I'm trying to get across into everyone's minds... I am not going to come after you for drawing mushroom eyes or wide headed funny snouted beasts or whatever...

Being super inspired by others is a Good Thing, I "steal" from others to get a better understanding of art all the time, I sift through the little things and details I like and feed them to my own work, where it's swallowed up and absorbed into its body and output, because you have to try really hard to do complete and direct emulation of somebody else's work, and most of the time that's not what people do or even want to do, at least not long term. Which is also kind of my point!

(In fact I've also seen lots of ppl heavily inspired by me (<- this is fine, we're mutuals or they literally told me about it) who have art better than mine like DAMN wtf did you need me for 😭 good for them good for them.

I've also had people apologize for stealing my style and then I look at their art and I don't see it at all bc everyone draws different and has their own brain that sees the world differently...its literally ok. This is how art is Made. If "cheye's" eyes and face shapes and folds, cobbled together from many before him, get you further into your own art and joy of it then make it so)