#I grew up dealing with that but still

[satanicspinosaurus]

Currently mad that GAHT made my feet grow 1/2 a size because now my nice jam skates do not fit anymore. The bright side of being gay is I can steal my husband's in the short-term.

[terukosnumberonefan]

I’m not normal about them lmao

[anxiously-sidequesting]

ceren's voice change isnt all that bad actually!

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I realized (which was obvious to me subconsciously) is that... The family that vehemently didn't accept me when I first came out but now do accept me are still the same family that I am most unwilling to be open about things I feel protective over.

I remember that my dad reacted so poorly, not to my coming out, but to my transition specifically that my therapist was the one to ask if I wanted to put it on my file that I wanted nothing to ever be shared with him about my health after I broke down multiple times due to my anxiety that I would never transition. While there are and were protections for me, I was incredibly fearful at the time because I was a minor, and I was so worried that he would have prevented my transition that I couldn't have said for certain what (if any) lengths he would have gone to to prevent that.

He's grown a lot as a person, and made some commendable strides. But he didn't find out from me when I medically transitioned the second I turned eighteen, and I think that's among the things that truly made him realize the scope of the issue.

I'm not here to guilt trip parents, guardians, or other members responsible for the care of the children or teens or young adults in their care.... but this is a cautionary tale. You aren't saving the people in your care when you do this, you simply reinforce an idea that you will never care for them, never want them as they are, would rather them be shoved away.

When you give people reasons to be secretive, they will behave secretively. When you give people reasons to doubt their safety around you, they will become sneaky, defensive, and withdrawn. When you give people reasons to doubt that you value their life, they will believe that you don't care if they live or not.

[theatrekidenergy]

The trans FTM experience of not knowing how to feel about your detachment from femininity and growing up a woman

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[orcelito]

I'm afraid the baby fever has come back enough that I am wanting to write smth that is. Domestic. Still got my dad vash fic from b4 that I've been sloooooowly working on, but that starts off pretty depressing lol and I kinda just want some vw domesticity. You know. Anyways I have started planning a wolfwood pregnancy fic today. Because i can.

[gumy-shark]

Re: the Shou and Teru roomate situation I think it's sooo. Interesting to think of the different and same ways they have been affected by Claw. Shou not having a place to stay after the world domination arc bc like where is he supposed to go/where was he even staying to begin with. And Teru bc Claw BLEW UP HIS APARTMENT...

EXACTLY!!

also btw their friend group does not find out about this situation until shou invites ritsu over to hang out and the same time teru invites mob over. from then on teru forces shou to coordinate calendar events with him once a week to prevent conflicts from happening again

[bucephaly]

I have a question that may be stupid. A manga I read has a character who is Cherokee and Japanese. She's based on a friend of the author's who is also Cherokee and Japanese (her father was stationed in Japan and is a recognized member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma). Some people in the English fandom have referred to the character's ethnicity as "Japakee" and I... I feel kind of uncomfortable with that term? It reminds me of WWII when Jap was a slur commonly used, and combining that with Cherokee makes it sound kind of anti-Cherokee to me. But I'm not Cherokee, I'm Japanese + Iranian American, so I went, "Wait, I don't think I get to say to someone else that this isn't an okay term. I'm not part of this marginalized group."

I couldn't find any Cherokee or just indigenous people in general discussing this online. Are there, idk, blogs run by Cherokee/indigenous people I can run this sort of thing by? I don't want to barge into your asks just because your posts come up when I search Cherokee, since that seems rude. At the same time, it's hard to find people to ask about this kind of thing. But I certainly don't want to be ignorant of what people in the actual marginalized group being portrayed think. I know I wouldn't want anyone ignoring what Japanese or Iranian people felt about a similar term used about us.

Sorry for the rambly ask. I have ADHD, sometimes I go on too long.

Eh yea that does been a lil weird, but mostly because of like what you said about the Japanese slur tbh. The portmanteau does remind of what some natives will do when they're mixed between tribes though haha, but that's mostly jokes among our communities.

I'll open this up to my native followers, what do yall think?

[thegirlinthecher]

'Elizabeth Swann can't simply live on land as a mother and wife, she's a pirate!' and 'All Elizabeth Swann wanted to do was marry Will!' are opinions that can and do co-exist because our cringe fail princess has been failing upwards from the start to become the captain of the Singaporean pirate fleet, subsequently Pirate King and then wife of the captain of the Flying Dutchman; imposing our own narrative on her is what's backwards and our girl loser can literally do and achieve anything

[lowstakesvampires]

a couple years in the future, but not many...

colour key: blue = english spoken red = norwegian/norse spoken black text = language being masked by english so you can still read. see the borders for actual language. purple borders = norwegian/norse accented english (it's blue tinted by red) orange borders = whatever bat's accent is. while speaking norwegian (it's red tinted by yellow)

i am very normal about languages <3

[torsamors]

watching greys while i clean n pack and jackson and april are here finally n personally i think those two are soulmates but in the way that like. no one else in the world deserves to be involved in their fucked up-ness

[handsomegentlebutch]

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

for no fucking reason: real life dictatorships in the 20th and 21th centuries are almost always allowed to thrive because of some empire's interests. If not, they get heavily demonized then dismantled by said empire over a relatively short period of time (unless exceptional circumstances, tho it's almost always applicable). the examples are countless; please read declassified reports and interviews from the CIA/KGB/other intelligence agencies across the world to lose your mind about it, especially those involving what happened during the Cold War and what happened in the Middle East (and still does).

characters like ganondorf are the epitomy of the fantasy that colonized/"exotic" countries naturally spawn evil incarnate and must be controlled/stumped/imprisoned/destroyed by the "responsible ones" while the perfect good place is perfect and utterly blameless about what went down and how the local population suffered (which, in real life, the empires of the world are most definitively not that --the amount of dictators that were ushered into power by western interests is staggering and we fucking love to see it don't we). And also, a blameless victim to whichever retribution eventually comes back their way.

It is a rethoric that denies interconnectivity and historical responsibility.

this is what I criticize about the narrative choices of a fictional conflict that *does not exist in real life* and has been entirely made up by human beings: the cowardice of blamelessness, and what little this kind of narrative brings to the table --especially today when we should be looking at the root cause of broken systems of violence instead of endlessly scapegoating minorities.

and well, especially given how effective this narrative apparently seems to be.

[crookedkingdom]

my parents didn't think this was very funny

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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