#We either do it cringe or not at all.

[pinkiepig]

NOOO I WAS JUST PROUD OF THAT ART PIECE I MADE FIVE MINIUTES AGO WHAT HAPPENED

[omgcatboi]

I don't often post my non kink related art but I'm tryna get the attention of someone else in the community and am too shy and cringe to reach out so. Here, have this portrait I did of Hanzo Shimada. With my finger. On ibis paint. This took me four hours. Progress for proof below.

[torchickentacos]

Being as you were a Percy Jackson kid, which god/dess do you think would be your parent if you were a demi-god?

I have not taken those buzzfeed quizzes since like ninth grade lol but I remember I always either got Aphrodite or Poseidon. I'm so rusty on these books because it's been so long, but I remember feeling very seen by the whole Poseidon thing. It's hard to tell how much of that was relating to poseidon stuff specifically and how much of it was just, like, Percy ALSO being an at-the-time middle schooler with authority issues lmfao. A lot of the percy jackson books rang true for me, especially the first series- I had one teacher who called me 'defiant and oppositional' and 'my own worst enemy' at every single turn, so I really related to the whole 'troubled kid' thing. It felt 1:1 and I think a lot of the kinship I felt with the poseidon cabin placement was probably moreso just 13 year old me feeling seen by a character for the first real time, and that character (Percy) was also in the poseidon cabin.

Sort of piggybacking off of the context of this ask and what prompted it though (HP, see my last post), this is why good representation and caring portrayals is IMPORTANT. I had a positive experience with the PJO series- it showed a troubled kid with a weird home life that was able to find strengths in the things that previously just got him in trouble most of the time. I was a little too old for this next experience (already knew I was bi for years before the nico stuff) but I know that a LOT of queer kids found solidarity with Nico DiAngelo as their first real introduction to queerness. I haven't kept up much but I know Rick Riordan has written a lot of queer and bipoc characters since and really leaned into his role of 'guy who makes middle schoolers whose best friends are their librarians feel understood'. I think contrasting that with other authors who have leaned more into 'I think trans people shouldn't exist', it's... you know. A stark difference. I think my positive experience of having been a PJO kid is part of why I feel so strongly about the HP thing. I've been on the receiving end of why good rep is important, and I can't imagine how I would have felt if I'd loved these books and Rick then went on twitter eight years later like 'yeah i think [group of people] should be denied medical care and not exist btw'. Ya know?

[mylonelydreaming]

Y'know, even *if* it did turn out that Link "only" gave her the house and his hairband... that's still romantic and peak simp(affectionate) behaviour?

Immediately giving a girl I just saved the world with all my earthly possessions sounds like a pretty romantic thing to do to me. Why yes, of course you can have my favourite hairband I've worn all the time since before the calamity and my childhood home and my bed and literally everything I own, you don't even have to ask

[chipped-chimera]

Just gonna say as an old fart on this webbed site watching your very traumatic teenage years as a social oddity and it's entire aesthetic get swept up in this Y2K 2014? revival is certainly an ... Experience.

[poppyseed799]

I think one of the weirdest signs that I was trans was that I was fine with being called a woman but NOT a cis woman. I felt awful cuz I was like “do I have a problem with people calling me cis even tho I am???” cuz I am NOT someone who minds being called accurate descriptors such as cis. I felt like I just wanted to be special or something even tho that wasn’t it and felt so bad. Something just felt really wrong about being called a CIS woman. Definitely one of the more thought provoking signs I was trans lol

[homophyte]

it is interesting to me that ive seen lately (n yknow this is subjective and likely not any real social force just what ive seen) many queer people simultaneously talking about taking back and embodying unpalatable and ‘unmarketable’ queerness (the recent return to the terms faggot and transsexual come to mind) which i think is pretty evidently shaped by the conservative moment were in of demonizing queer ppl and especially gnc and trans people as predators--it reads as a return to queer isolationism in the face of external hostility, imo--while at the same time ive seen a lot of rallying around the “original” 6 stripe rainbow flag as opposed to any of the purportedly ‘factional’ flags of different queer identities, with the assumption being different identity flags divide us while the rainbow flag encompasses everyone and its kinda fascinating to me bc the rainbow flag is probably the single most marketable and palatable and uncontroversial symbols of queerness which has been seamlessly uptaken by those who wish to sell it back to us as gets pointed out every pride month with all the cringey pride merch.... i dunno you could maybe take that as a point of hypocrisy and claim the queer community is itself in a conservative moment rn where its returning to a sense of history and historical continuity (perhaps even out of that sense of external threat) or even that the queer community has for some time been in a conservative moment given the like, decade of identity discourse and lashing out at any people deemed to not have a sufficiently established history or however we should categorize the bihets/ace discourse/transtrender-tucute discourse/pan discourse/bi lesbians discourse (because lets be frank its essentially all the same discourse just keeping up its momentum by leapfroging from one target to the next) which i think is, like, SOMEWHAT true but not entirely? its more interesting to me, in any case, as an expression of a conflict the queer community is facing given that current state of affairs RE antitransness and that very recent history. like, the simultaneous need to retreat to a safe sense of community which is welcoming to the very things the outer world is demonizing ie mutable gender, complex or contradictory experiences of gender, gender expression which is hostile to the cis binary, but also the ways in which it has to grapple with those discourses which have largely defined the community infighting for again the past decade. its queer people begging the question ‘how can we make the queer community welcoming to the girlfags and genderfucks and tboys who are being threatened when we have spent so much time making the queer community a hostile place for anyone with a non-conventional or not easily (or even just palatably) sortable sense of queer identity’. and the answer it seems to be grappling with at the moment is like, welcoming all that diversity of experience but being absolutely averse to naming it. yes we love all the fuckery with gender and sexuality never be marketable but like, ew, why are you calling yourself [insert microlabel here]. you can be genderweird but you cant call yourself genderweird. you can only exist as queer in the broadest possible way (the all-inclusive gay pride flag!) but if you try to name the specifics or use those identity labels weve been fighting over for years youre doing it wrong (the progress pride flag is now ugly and cringey and ‘too much’). i think theres something also to the way (at least on this site) transmisogynistic discourses have really taken hold as legitimate (though yknow i wont downplay how much a problem transmisogyny has like. always been in queer spaces no matter what) in the name of protecting n defending trans people. like its just regurgitated transmisogyny but its being mobilized supposedly in the service of helping trans people. idk its definitely getting a little late for me to string this together fully coherently but theres a throughline there, in the ways certain ideas are being consolidated and reified as ‘yes were more progressive now!’ when i think theres definitely something to question there in terms of like...are we? are we actually? are we doing better by the people were trying to help or are we setting strict standards and forcing ppl to adhere to them again?

[girlyaois]

I get your post but if I personally didn't believe my fos were real on SOME level, why would I bother? It's not fun if it's fake. Self shipping can't be fun if it's just wholly pretend. What would I get out of that? Just more made up stuff? That avails me nothing.

where did the joy you had when you were a kid, playing pretend with your friends and family, playing with dolls and toys go? this ask is saddening to me. playing pretend isn't fun for you at all? why should we have to delve into delusion and dissociation in order to enjoy ourselves. there's so much joy in the world we have--I have a lot of fun playing pretend with my friends and our f/os. I enjoy thinking of these characters, in a way, as dolls I cherish with my whole heart--dressing them up, putting them in large toy houses. it's the kind of joy I felt as a kid, pretending I was friends with my MLP figurines. but I'm grown now, and I like to pretend my favorite characters and I are in love, because it makes me happy. and when I'm done playing, I can put them away, to talk to my real friends and family. and I find that more rewarding than when I was stuck in a delusion fueled maladaptive daydream, any day of the week. I enjoy not viewing my F/Os as real anymore, because now I can be real myself. do real things.

self shipping brings me the same joy that making OCs does. making fan characters, OC's, role-playing, playing pretend--it's a fun and rewarding hobby for me.

I'm sorry self shipping wouldn't feel fun to you if you viewed it as fake. I understand how you feel, but I cannot encourage that viewpoint. I do sympathize, though, and I hope you can learn to find joy in the more lighthearted, (maybe even childish, to some) aspects of self shipping--theres joy to be had anywhere.

[narwhalandchill]

i am literally on like medically alarming levels of copium for future leaks to reveal chiori to be that powerful furina-compatible geo healer of our dreams to enable double geo flexible setups bc like.

navia. oh god navia my beloved. the character i was the most surprised to fall in love with in fontaine to the extent i did. whos made me laugh made me cry. i love her optimism her resilience her stubborness her raw humanity her strength her bravery. whose design i absolutely adore. her skill animations. the idles. everything about her. i will prefarm her to 8/10/8 on day 1 its not even a question. oh navia. i would love nothing more than offer you the best i can offer. the strongest teams. take you to abyss 12 and beyond.

but youre an atk scaler that wants bennett and theres 3 things in this household you can hope for all you like but youll never get and thats kazuha bennett xiangling

navia i love you but im not fucking cheating on childe international for you 💀

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

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[kermitheefrog]

the supermacs in heuston station even has the same gaa sports crowd mural we have in ours??? like what does it have to do with tasty and tempting food at.superMACS

[sharkieboi]

certain fb group for animal care people just makes me sad sometimes cause it’s either just people looking for engagement by asking a very easily searchable question with “cute animal pic for tax!!1!1!1!!1!” so they can get some likes or people discussing actual literal human rights violations that their workplace is trying to commit and being like “but am i the bad person for buying donuts for my team when susan in HR who i never interact with is lactose intolerant?” or people using the anonymous post option to have impromptu group therapy

[burningcomputerpersona]

i hate questions where they have two different options on each end of a scale and ask you to pick anywhere in between. like those are not complete opposites and my answer can't be boiled down to a certain point on the scale. either ask me two seperate questions with a yes/no scale each or just don't ask me at all

[strikersin]

If my Actual Real Life Father saw this blog I wouldn't even be able to die. I would just live. LOL. At that point I guess we have different things to worry about .

But I can see his confused and perplexuated reaction . Haha. It's actually cute

[idontknowiknow]

HATE to attempt to introduce myself to someone only to find out that we hung out semi-regularly a few years ago and i once returned their scarf to their house when they left it somewhere -_-

[hyenaswine]

i liked the original post when tumblr put it on my dash bc i agreed with 90% of it, but then tumblr started putting op's other posts on my dash & it was just all denigrating pan people & it's just like... oh so you were just accidentally right about one thing in your pursuit of being a fuckhead

id much rather see pups & drag queens & leather daddies & kinksters & half naked transsexuals etc at pride than cops & corporations & tiktok users with pansexual flags. btw