#all I do is ramble

[miguelhugger2099]

it’s like four minutes til midnight where i live so i just want to say my thanks again to those who wished me a happy birthday it means a lot

i didn’t expect so many birthday wishes which may not be anything for yall but i don’t get much of that feel goodiness especially on my birthday so it just means a lot thank u pookies 🫶 i hope y’all enjoyed the fics i had today and i hope you’ll enjoy the ones tomorrow

also ! this is rlly stupid but i drew me and miguel earlier and i wanted to share w y’all ! haha thank u again mwah mwah

[jesusbutbetterrr]

i think I'm gonna do a foot reveal to celebrate when I get 100 followers

[antennatoheaven]

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[dailyhatsune]

Miku comes out to her dad

memories of miku and mike at the pride parade

[phereshift]

personal opinion but. the reason tiktok’s ‘zepotha’ isn’t doing great isn’t because of a lack of cohesion or poor reasoning behind it (although I’m sure these would’ve contributed). It’s because when I was first introduced to Zepotha it was as a fake movie concept. And when I was first introduced to Goncharov it was as me spending the entire morning trying to figure out why Tumblr was obsessed with some random movie.

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce Wayne is canonically a very handsome man (he is called a "pretty boy" and he is in his 40s, for fuck's sake), and he is pretty famous as a rich philanthropist who doesn't want to leave his awful cursed crime infested city. So, there must be a ton of people thirsting over him on the internet. Fancams, edits, fanfics and imagines ("kidnapped with Bruce Wayne 😍 by a Gotham rogue"), the whole charade!

And anytime one of the batkids stumbles on a thirst post, they have the most dramatic disgusted reaction, loudly gagging, before sending the link to the batkids chat, because if they must suffer, then they should all suffer. Clicking on a link in this groupchat is like playing russian roulette, and getting rickrolled is a good ending.

[cowgirlcherrie]

PRETTY PRETTIEST EVER ILY SM you're literally so beautiful and the bow aw you're a dream <3

you are going to make me cryyyy AHHHHH that was the sweetest thing, baby ur adorable ♡♡♡ thank you so much my sweet angel !!!

I loveeee bows with even the most simple outfits, it’s a signature in my style and I tried to mute the outfit by wearing sneakers so I wasn’t too overdressed. I did forget my thigh garter </3

but I went to ulta right after seeing barbie and some lady asked if I went to go see the movie and that she loved my outfit. Nearly collapsed on the floor.

now i’m going to stop talking bc I am rambling WOOPSIES

the outfit reveal is gone incase anyone is wondering sawreeeee

[inafallsaway]

Drawing time!

[imvgincs]

                               sooji   remained   firm,   unwilling   to   yield   as   he   invaded   her   personal   space.   and   she   refused   to   allow   her   expression   to   falter   at   the   reminder   that   her   words   had   once   been   morphed   into   a   weapon   against   her.   or   rather,   those   she'd   known   in   her   past.

                                 ❛⠀⠀how?⠀⠀❜     she   countered,   her   tone   unrelenting   against   his   attempt   to   intimidate   her.       ❛⠀⠀is   this   your   attempt   at   some   sort   of   twisted   reverse   psychology?⠀⠀❜      a   derisive   scoff   escaped   her   lips   whilst   she   narrowed   her   eyes   at   his   growing   smirk.     ❛⠀⠀trying   to   provoke   a   reaction   from   me   so   I   spill   more   secrets?⠀⠀❜     she   accused,   a   bitter   tinge   burning   into   her   words.     ❛⠀⠀if   i   had   a   soft   spot,   do   you   honestly   think   I'd   still   be   here?⠀⠀❜     

                               the   memory   of   his   previous   ploy   lingered,   evident   in   his   demeanor   as   he   held   it   against   her.   she   couldn't   fathom   why   he   clung   to   it   so   tightly.     ❛⠀⠀and   who's   to   say   I   want   anything   to   do   with   them?⠀⠀❜     she   retorted,   the   notion   feeling   ludicrous   to   her.     ❛⠀⠀if   that   were   the   case,   I   would   have   reached   out   by   now.   so   spare   me   your   theatrics,⠀⠀❜     she   asserted,   closing   the   distance   between   them   to   meet   his   challenge   head-on.

                                 ❛⠀⠀are   you   gonna   tell   me   what   jeremy's   planning   or   continue   this   pointless   charade?⠀⠀❜     she   demanded,   her   gaze   unwavering.     ❛⠀⠀If   not,   make   yourself   useful   and   get   lost.⠀⠀❜     

Jinx's inability to pick her battles wisely was going to be her demise eventually, and he chuckled with contempt. "You're gonna eat your words one day," He'd make sure of it. The day would come he'd see her vanish at his fingertips. It was fate; the universe just had a fucked up plan to make him wait. He'd forge the pieces into place to make it happen if he had to. It was just a matter of time. So, he allowed her to laugh about it now. Even if he suppressed the desire to reach over and try his luck now.

"Don't worry, you can spare me the dramatics of your mommy and daddy issues," he jeered, his tone dripping with disdain. "But you're protecting them." Kyumin accused. "You always have." His eyes narrowed as he studied her with a scrutinizing glance, a smirk playing at the corners of his lips. "It was the same for those buddies of yours." He twisted the knife. "If you could even call them that." He certainly wouldn't have. "I think you still have a soft spot for your little heroes, but just remember," The villain approaches. "They want nothing to do with you now," he leaned in closer, his voice low and menacing. "To them, you're as good as scum." His smile widened, a dark gleam in his eyes. "Just like the rest of us."

[teaboot]

Sometimes at work it's not my place to tell people the things I want to say, and I find I often go home at the end of the rougher days to stand blankly in my shower and tell myself over and over what I wish I could pass on.

This accomplishes very little, and mostly just gives me a tension headache, but through it all I think I've narrowed myself down to a few solid things I'd like to tell people the most.

You can't change people. Not permanently, not for anythig. You can support them, encourage them, love them, give them tools and opportunities and resources, but you can't make them change. They can change themselves if they want to, but they have to want to, and they have to want it for themselves, because they're the only one that's certain to be with them forever.

For better or worse, you make your own choices, and blaming bad choices on others doesn't only work to absolve you of responsibility- it also robs you of control. Because if you say you only did something because I did something, then you arent only shifting blame- you're admitting that you cannot control yourself, that you cannot truly make choices for yourself, that other people can control you- and as long as you truly beleive that, you'll keep facing the same problems over and over. You'll keep letting others dictate your choices, because you'll beleive that they can, and you'll never be free.

White knights on horseback are from fairytales. Nobody can help you if ou're not willing to help yourself. To try, to put the dirty work in, to belive you're worth that effort- Act as though nobody is coming to save you. From a struggle, from pain, from bad relationships, from yourself. And when you do save yourself, because you will, because failure here isn't an option if you want to survive, you'll never find another dragon that can keep you prisoner.

Don't say anything to anyone that you wouldn't want them remembering forever.

Doing the right thing in bad circumstances is hard. It's the hardest thing. But if you make the choice to do that hard thing anyways, despite your fear, you'll go on the rest of your like knowing that you're the sort of person who did something.

The present only seems the hardest because the past I over and the future hasn't happened.

There's so much joy ahead of you, the kind you can't possibly understand until you see it yourself.

The responsibility of consequences is often disguised as the power of permission. "I won't do this if you help me", "I'll work on my anger if you do this for me", "I promised you I'd quit, but can I have just one?". The unspoken question is, "Can it be your fault if this goes badly?"

You cant make someone love you the way you need to be loved. Someone can love you very much and still be bad for you, even if you love them very much in return. Two people can love each other very, very much, and try their very best, and still be wrong for each other.

Sometimes being near to someone changes you, even in good ways, and the people you become don't fit together as well as the people you were.

Caring takes work. Even if it's real. Especially if it's real. And the most important gestures aren't the grand, poetic, songs-and-flowers-and-tears moments; they're getting out of bed even though you don't want to. Paying attention to things you don't enjoy. Scrubbing pans, or opening a window, saying "thank-you", or helping carry groceries into the house. The small things fill the big things- without the small, boring, mediocre things, big things feel hollow.

Thrre is honour and dignity in humble work.

If you are a cruel and spiteful person, then you will find every place you visit to be full of the same cruel, spiteful people. This is not because the world is as cruel as you, but because everywhere you are, you will be disliked. This is the curse that comes with being persistently cruel and spiteful.

If you are a kind and ppsitive person, you will repeatedly encounter kind and positive people, because as they grow familiar with you, they will be happier to have you near. This is the reward of being a kind and positive person.

When splitting paths with loved ones, briefly or forever, aim for your last words to always be "I love you".

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus: