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symeraid-s · 2 years ago

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I’m not even interested in BABYMONSTER, but it sure would have been nice to know this beforehand. Like, YG gave us multiple teasers for all 7 girls, allowing people to already get attached to them, and now you’re telling them (and us) that they will not debut as 7?

Wow. This is worse than Stray Kids’ debut. Because we at least knew before getting any teasers, that there could still be line up changes. This is picking 7 girls (which are all underage) telling them that they will debut only to pull the rug out from under them at the last moment. It’s just a really scummy thing to do.

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, the youngest of the girls is 13. You do not put a 13 year old girl through something like this! And, to be frank, she shouldn’t debut at 13 years old at all. Didn’t we just talk about this with NewJeans?

But yeah, thank you YG. You gave me one more reason to not support this group.

#babymonster #yg entertainment #seriously though #survival shows are shit #I have seen some clips from Boys Planet and that's already enough of that #on that note #Jay doesn't deserve any of the slander people online give him #all of you need to take a step back #anyhoot #back to this garbage #because seriously YG?#what the fuck #You are a grade a asshole #why am I not surprised that there is a catch with their new group though?#because of mixnine?#probably

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 8 months ago

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Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #'WWX was asleep for 4 days' is an incorrect factoid.#The average WWX sleeps for 8 hours. The PD-MDZS WWX who was asleep for 40 comics and 4 months is an outlier.#We are back to present day! I have missed drawing them!#Ah...the contrast between how the flashback ended (cold and distrustful) to how wwx wakes up (warm and watched over)...#The gap between the past and present is very important. Not just in this story but in our lives too.#The past can still hurt and it doesn't just go away with time as some say. It is the power of realizing that things have changed.#We can't get the good back. The bad memories have concluded. Those live somewhere else now.#It is hard to realize that you have to live for today and tomorrow. The past is so loud.#For WWX it is realizing that despite the mistrust in the past - He really does have faith that LWJ will be there for him.#It is the reflection of knowing that you changed and will keep changing and that change is good and kind sometimes.#But more importantly...and this I really do mean with all my heart:#It will all end up okay in the end. Even after the worst day. The most painful losses. You will get through it.#What feels like a breaking point is truthfully just another step you have to take. You'll get through it even though it feels like the end.#There are wonderful things you have yet to see. Friends you have yet to meet.#Even if it hurts so badly...one day it just aches. Someday you'll go a few weeks not remembering that it ever hurt.#Oh and because my izutsumi comic revealed many people were in need of hearing this:#You are loved. Right now. You are so loved right now. We just forget to tell each other that.#Go tell the people you love that they matter to you. I'm assigning you homework!!! You are graded on completion.

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benevolenterrancy · 5 months ago

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May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

#svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #bingqiu #sqq #lbh #scum villain #heard the song Take This Body Home by Rose Betts and it nearly took me out at the knees #it really really suits sqq's self-detonation in hua yue city right? i'm not the only one feeling this?#considered adding some literal shards for them to be stepping on - since sqq's sword explodes - but i couldn't quite make it work #anyway this has been playing like a music video in my head for the past couple days highly recommend listening to the song #if you haven't heard it before #can't get over the absolute dissonance between how sqq views this scene and how everyone else must feel about it #like to him he's just completing his plan - hopefully keeping lbh from destroying a city with energy imbalance and escaping The Plot #nbd! he and sqh have planned it all out it's FINE :) off he goes!#meanwhile everyone who loves him - including lbh who worked years to get back to him and is trying to work through a lot of grief #and resentment and doubt and longing and... - watches him DIE in FRONT OF THEM #just collapse while coughing up blood sword disintegrating energy completely consumed #like holy hell sqq could you traumatize the people around you any more???#no wonder lbh went a little bit crazy after that like my man was already not in a great place but what the fuck #lbh watches his shizun presumably sacrifice himself for him ONCE AGAIN like after he's finally Gotten Strong his shizun is STILL #coming to harm in an effort to make up for his shortcomings #my art #most of the time out here drawing what amounts to muppets and then sometimes i get the urge for this and just need to cover everyone in blo

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swordheld · 1 year ago

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do the silly thing. if you do not do the silly thing time will pass and it will not be the same silly thing it could have been. it will still be silly, and it will still be yours, but it will not be the same. this is both a blessing and a curse, but so is living; and if you do not do it now when will you? who will? it has to be you, it was always meant for you, waiting for you.

#this is about writing for me but could be about anything (that is not hurtful to urself or others. very important)#that's why it is silly (affectionate) or cringey (affectionate) like u gotta just let yourself go sometimes. you have to do the thing.#even if it is terrible horrible (not what you want) bc at least then it EXISTS. at least it holds space in the universe and it lives outsid #you can let it sit and rot and gather dust but at least then you can go back to it. even if it's horrible there is at LEAST at least -#one kernel of it that you can bring into the next piece. at least one shining pearl of something.#even if it needs work or months in those lil funky rock tumblers for geodes and gemstones and all. even if needs SO much work.#at least it is there!!! and it is yours!!!#it's your call to action if it's something u want w/ all your heart.#or even a piece of it. if it's something you want? well - it's already yours. it always has been.#you just have to take the first step / the first breath / and begin.#scribbles.

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iamespecter · 5 months ago

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Sorry for being such a poopyhead and letting my negative emotions take ahold of me and control my thought process for nearly 3 days guys anyways self-esteem has been recovered (somewhat) and now I'm just doing a colorblind challenge using Caine to test if I can still paint

(I disabled colors on my screens and therefore CANNOT see any of the colors even in this screenshot, I'm relying purely on values and all I can see are black and whites) (EDIT: Okay, I forgot the exception to this challenge was Caine's eyes because I wanted it to be the same as his original palette just in case this attempt's palette was too unrecognizable.)

I also discovered I like cooking as a hobby during those 3 days of self-reflection. I should stop being terminally online more often

#Ziku's insane rambles #life update #personal post #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc caine #caine #art wip #digital art #the last three days were both hellish and eye-opening #so I'm still glad I took that break #turns out it's even what I needed for myself #before I took the break I was having MAD doubts about my artistic skills and very bad thoughts #now I'm back on the saddle again #sometimes all you need is to take a step back #when things feel overwhelming; step away from the keyboard #trust the process :)

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weaselle · 22 days ago

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There have been several things in my everyday life that i have just, "decided to not let bother me". And that seemed to work really well for me. Like, well if i can't seem to change that then i guess i'll just accept the fact that i'm a person whose life is like that, and be at peace with it.

years later i'm finding out that while i thought i was not letting it bother me, what i was actually doing was ignoring that it was bothering me the whole time. And, wow, are those two things different.

#in the long term. but they feel so similar in the short term #like in the moment they both feel like you don't care about it anymore with some relief and an ability to focus on other things in your lif #but when that thing runs its whole orbit out in the dark and arrives back in the center of your attention later in life #it arrives with the full force of the decade or two you've been walking with that particular pebble in your shoe #and you find yourself thinking “i'd rather chew my own foot off than have to take one more step onto that little fucking rock again istfg”#made all the worse by the fact you've not given yourself any compassion or accommodation about it #like you haven't said to yourself it's okay you walked less miles than you needed to walk today - after all you have a pebble in your shoe #and you haven't used a cane or taken foot-resting breaks or anything in fact you've just been doing your best to not even limp #so instead of not letting the pebble bother me i've just been doing things in a way in the way guaranteed to make the pebble bother me most #and i think i've got like #several miscellaneous shoe bits going on down there smh

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areyoudoingthis · 1 year ago

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I am SO grateful that ed and stede exist as characters exactly as they are. I'm so grateful for these two men who are traumatized and messed up and struggle to even like themselves, who are terrible at communicating, who make enough mistakes between the two of them to fill an entire ocean. I am so grateful to watch them struggle and be seen and be loved and reach out for the things they want and are maybe starting to believe that they deserve. I'm so grateful that the show lets them fall in love and get together exactly as they are, that it doesn't say they need to wait until they've become some unattainably perfect version of themselves before they have permission to have that. i am so grateful for ofmd

#ofmd #there are no other shows like this one #I'm so tired of media that repeats the same idea that you need to hit a list of predetermined therapy milestones (determined by who???)#before you can fall in love #I'm honestly tired of fic that does this with ed and stede too #because guess what #you can live in the 21st century with access to therapy and dsm diagnosis and a bunch of different medications and you can be doing all the #right things and still be a trainwreck!!!#putting in the work doesn't mean you're gonna become perfect and never have problem again any more than falling in love doesn't mean you'll #never have problems again #I'll forever be crying on my knees levels of grateful for the unique writing on this show #for saying that it's okay you can be a mess you can take one step forward and three steps back and you'll still always be deserving #of love and grace and forgiveness #you don't have to do anything to deserve you deserve it just because you exist #i love this show with my entire heart #alex watches ofmd

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garvalhaminho · 4 months ago

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okay rick riordan doesn't owe you a hot percy jackson.

#also the fact that he is canonically insecure could be a factor at play #it might just be me being aroace but i feel like it's unnecessary to critique that part bc like #whyy do you need it sm #one thing is liking/being attracted to a fictional character #another thing is shitting on a description of said character when they don't think of themselves as attractive #like let's take a step back #anyway that was bothering me that's all #pjo #percy jackson #wrath of the triple goddess #wottg #pjo hoo toa #have a nice day y'all<333

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queerofthedagger · 2 months ago

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i'm re-reading the hobbit (aka it's my current falling-asleep audiobook) and there is something to doing that after having just read the silm and the great tales and (almost) the entirety of HoMe that just hits me in the sense of. so much of the great tales talk of great heroics and incredible deeds of valour. and yes of course their mode is different and that's why they feel like this, why they are a little untouchable sometimes, bigger than life, almost. but there still is something so poignant to returning to scared, terrified, shaking-in-his-boots bilbo baggins who faints at the notion of a dragon and baulks at the idea of an adventure and then goes anyway.

i don't have a very coherent conclusion about this yet beyond, it keeps making me think of the 'courage is not absence of fear, it's being scared and doing it anyway' and how on one side it says so much about bilbo, about how he goes, and keeps going, keeps growing with each new step on the road, without ever quite stopping being scared out of his mind. and how on the other side it is also a reminder that regardless of the tales painting them great, we should not forget how often all the great heroes must have been scared, too. how they went anyway. perhaps finrod did not faint at the prospect of facing sauron, but he went anyway. perhaps hurin did not quail in the face of morgoth, but he must have been terrified for himself and his family anyway. how he kept resisting anyway. perhaps luthien did not try to convince herself just to stay home on page, but how hard the road regardless. how she walked it anyway! like!!

#*mine #mona's rambling #tolkien #silm #the silmarillion #the hobbit #bilbo baggins #and then you have maeglin who. SORRY. anyway (<- listened to a podcast EP about the fall of gondolin omw to work today so yk)#no but! like i think something about the silm is that sometimes you need to stop and take a step back #and think about the actual implications on a small humna personal level. and suddenly it all hits ten times harder #i do always feel that people who find it dry might forget about that #but yeah anyway. going back to the hobbit after All That is just. a lot in the best of ways lmao <3 #i'll be here forever at this point but yk. we know that

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cator99 · 7 months ago

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out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

#being called butch just reminds me of how much males have the freedom to navigate between male archetypes and how people pay attention to #the distinguishing features of these varying masculinities #but when a female is seen as masculine it all gets lumped under the “butch” category #her masculinity is seen as unnatural and therefore incapable of being considered genuine or taken at face value as it is with males.#its always brought into question instead of taken in consideration with the rest of the woman's life and experiences and her particularities #Hence... Butch is still being treated as though its a huge lesbian cultural phenomena instead of a specific niche thing #also i dont mean to invite the “you dont pass!!” anons again bc that idiot is missing my point entirely (which is that im truly not trying)#but the fact is that for the past 3 years i have found myself increasingly navigating the male social world #and discovering what it means to me as a female to have access to the ability to take my “masculinity” for granted... relax #forget about it #etc #i think thats entirely antithetical to the Butch thing which seems to rest on the tension of other peoples expectations of her #people broadly are more surprised to find out that im interested in women just as much as they're surprised that im a gym queen iykwim...#ive worked hard for this and now that ive gotten the Woman Social Role thing pretty much entirely out of the way i am living the dream #i think a large part of that is learning as a dyke to appropriate the language of gay men theres a reason their terminology had #staying power even when their scene was *literally* dying meanwhile all that seemed to survive from dyke spaces was butch n femme ??#its because theirs didnt necessitate the building and maintenance of a scene in order for the subculture to hold its head above water #their labels *largely* weren't predicated on their relationships to gender roles and its telling that for dykes it was #their labels rested on the need to simply show up anonymous n be able to easily flag whether they were looking to fuck or be fucked #alongside the set of circumstances under which they would be fucking or getting fucked or what have you #it all comes back to the restrictions of female social blah blah blah and i think the sooner we collectively set down what we see as our #responsibility as lesbians and as feminists to Be A Woman the sooner we can step outside of that #n start thinking clearly about our individual circumstances and the necessity of putting on your own oxygen mask first before helping others

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wazzappp · 2 months ago

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I love thinking about how this would go down with them

#ghost rider dandadan au #lisa totally brings this up again. ‘awwwwww my evil minion is no longer evil minion-ing’ ‘what the fuck are you talking about??’#gotta be direct with this one girlie pop he’s one dense motherfucker. usual flirting techniques ain’t gonna apply here #REALLY need to draw their respective ‘jealous rage’ moments #some days lisa thinks she might have hit aira with that washing too hard. other days she thinks ‘perhaps not hard enough’#idk how jealous of a person robbie is in canon I’m thinking it’s not that bad. but in the dandadan world he’s got a couple things going-#against ‘reasonable behavior’#Robbie would be way closer to lisa in this universe considering their shared nightmare experience lmao #and then here comes along this dude outta NOWHERE and he’s ‘open’ and ‘trusting’ and ‘outgoing’#ALL THINGS ROBBIE REALLY ISNT #and the dude wastes NO TIME hitting on lisa. like. okay jiji. can you take a few fucking steps back please.#robbie reyes #lisa (ghost rider)#lisa o’toole #<- fuck it. tagging her name as that. she deserves a last name and that’s a good one.#my art #ANYWAY can you tell I’ve been thinking about this a lot #I just want them being kind of insane about each other to transfer over yk #please pardon the shitpost quality I am ✨tired✨ but I wanted to talk about them so so SO bad

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itspileofgoodthings · 5 months ago

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deeply loving something or someone does not equal (≠) worshipping something. connecting with an artist’s body of work does not equal (≠) being invested in a celebrity for no reason besides their fame and power and money. hope this helps.

#sorry that Taylor Swift is the biggest celebrity in the world and also a legitimate artist. I wrestle with it too sometimes #lol #but the false dichotomizing happening especially among Christian groups is incredibly annoying #I am trying not to comment on an Instagram post that I saw because I don’t need to be doing that lol #so I’m posting here to get it out of my system #could there be a lot more nuance here re: celebrity culture worship/flawed human nature/etc.? sure #but I’m really tired of the posturing and the lecturing and frankly the stupidity #that abounds in the critiques of Taylor fans in particular #it’s a lot of ugliness and a lot of stupidity. participation in it is an instant red flag to me #like. stay away from me in a public setting/I will go out of my way to avoid you red flag #and I have my own thoughts on swifties needing to take a step back sometimes! and/or live in reality a bit more #in terms of our relationship to her. but like. all of what I’m saying here still stands

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thatbuddie · 8 months ago

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i'm sorry. i have kept quiet about this for so so so long. but i can't any longer. i'm just sorry.

if you call buck "evan" you don't understand him as a character. if you call buck "evan" you don't understand the show.

the minute someone refers to buck as "evan" they are immediately telling on themselves.

#and i don't necessarily mean like once in a blue moon. i mean like calling buck #“evan” in text posts or writing from his pov in fics and writing “evan”#god even writing from someone else's pov and constantly referring to him as “evan”#and yeah this counts for writing from tommy's pov too and only using evan as a name for him.#remember when we all understood that buddie fic writers/shippers that had eddie calling buck evan all the time were just so wrong?#and now so many people are just out here being like “evan this” “evan that”#who is that? who are you talking about?#I AM GONNA NEED EVERYONE TO TAKE A STEP BACK WATCH THE SHOW AND REEVALUATE THEIR LIFE #anyways yeah i have just been biting my tongue and i couldn't do it anymore #.text

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bucephaly · 5 days ago

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THE PERSON BLOCKED ME, HELLO???

#comes to my blog asking me dumb questions and being really weird #and then blocking me when i have the gall to be kinda short and mean #lol. lmao.#ok. sure #im getting really tired of people coming to me asking for info and i provide them genuine info and try to be helpful #and tell them smth they might not wanna hear like their story is fake or theyre being weird and they really need to step back #and stop being so weird abt shit #and i get blocked. like. sorry?#i genuinely try to be helpful and offer genealogy help to people #but if you are just gunna twiddle your thumbs waiting without even starting on any research #while also thinking abt all the fun things you can take from our culture without putting any effort into learning legit stuff then???#yea im gunna get pissed ??

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mokeonn · 11 months ago

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Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

#simon says #to explain here and not in a reblog:#sometimes when you try to explain big picture solutions you're gonna sound dumb #you might not have done enough research #you might not have a rebuttal to a counter argument #you might not be articulate enough to explain why you think this #sometimes you gotta take a step back and give the simple solution. the one man solution #you do what you can to fight against the problem #you talk to people to help spread awareness and how to fight the bad problem #and you vote and invite others to vote for bigger steps towards solving the problem #like you can talk about theory and how you believe we need to do a huge drastic thing to solve and issue #but people will disagree and argue til you're blue in the face #they'll poke and prod until you mess up or lose your temper and use it against you #and you'll feel dumb and they'll learn nothing #sometimes the best thing to do is step away from the big picture and just say 'idk what the solution is I just know the things I can do“#sometimes you gotta admit you're not a scientist/expert and you can't answer that #i used this while talking with my Dad tonight #he brought up our climate crisis and space travel as a possible solution #and I said I think that's just addressing the symptom and not the cause and we need to care for our Earth now #and he asked me what solutions I think would fix it #and knowing my incredibly smart Dad who is articulate and ready to throw rebuttles at a moments notice to play devils advocate #and my past experience in struggling in this topic with him before #i just told him I didn't know. all i knew is the little things I can and do do to help #and that hopefully by spreading the word and habits and encouraging others to vote for those bigger solutions I could help make a change #but all I really could do is the little things I have control over #and the topic became much less stressful about the little things we have control over #like planting native plants and recycling and adopting habits that are healthier to our planet #which was 100% more preferable to if I tried to give a big solution. because I would reveal i didn't have all the knowledge needed to argue #and my articulation would make me sound like a stupid kid who only thinks they know what's best #so yeah I basically suggest that if you dont wanna feel like shit after debating someone just step away from the big picture for a moment

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moonchild-in-blue · 4 months ago

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I just want everyone to know that in the span of 3 days, I have made 3 loads of laundry, and have a 4th already sorted and ready to go (which includes towels / blankets / bedding). I still need to fold them and put them away BUT the important part is done 🥹

#once i out them all away i need to wash my plushies too but i'll leave it for next weekend #the laundry situation was bugging me A LOT. almost ran out of socks #why is laundry the most arduous and daunting of house chores? even dishes are much easier to get through #that post about making coffee in a million steps really resonates with me #because that's what doing laundry feels like. it's not just “wash clothes and put them away”#it's gather all dirty clothing in one place -> double check my “in use” clothes to see what also needs to be washed -> separate by colour #put on the washer -> take off the washer -> check if the clothesline is empty (and empty if not)#put them on the clothesline to dry -> empty the clothesline -> bring them to my room -> sort and fold -> put away -> rinse and repeat #many many steps. putting them outside to dry takes so long and so much energy out of me ugh #(no we do not use dryers here. that's not a thing. also i've had the experience back in the uk and while very convenient #it wears the fabric down so so much. clothes nowadays are made so flimsy and terrible quality #and using a dryer ruined a few of my favourite shirts. i do miss having warm sheets straight away tho)#but yeah. adult does basic chore whomp whomp (it's hard. i get it. you get it. i'm proud of myself and everyone else who has done A Task)#darya talks to herself

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