#also ignore the binding

[falseroar]

Me, making a sketchbook to make daily drawings in a year ago: ha, this will be a fun challenge, maybe I should really get into the Unus Annus spirit and burn the whole thing when I'm done.

Me, today, flipping through the nearly* full sketchbook: What am I going to do with this. Some of these drawings are too personal to show another living person. Some of these drawings were totally phoned in. That one's actually kind of good, and that one represents a core memory now.

Seriously, what am I supposed to do with this thing? 😭 (And what am I supposed to do now without the motivation to keep doing the daily drawings...?)

*-I drew on both sides of the pages, and there's an odd number of days in a regular year, so I've got the one page left. Also, side note: would not recommend doing this, unless you're okay with the possibility of drawings rubbing off on their opposite numbers. It didn't happen a lot for how many pages there are, but...sorry, Luigi.

[i-am-a-fan]

"The Two princes were like Water and Fire.

Their balance, bringing harmony to the world.."

"What happened to Them? The fire Prince? "

"What would you like to hear?

You really are just.. a bit too much like him. "

@thechildbesuffering your AU has infected me with a vision (this au belongs to them!)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

ok but, I think one thing I love about the Main Angry Guy (and basically almost all of the characters I enjoy ever) is how unapologetic he is about what he wants and doesn't want in a world where self sacrifice is very often considered the highest value of all. So many characters sacrifice their lives, their relationships, their achors, their connection to their communities, their individuality, and that submission to being absorbed into a greater whole is narratively seen as holy and good in a lot of cases (was thinking of impa of course, who is incredibly devoted to serving her purpose completely and exactly --except in totk!! good for you totk impa!!!-- but honestly almost every "good" character of note in the series will have to give up things to self-actualize)

and then you have ganondorf, who's like lol fuck that noise

[lloyds-archive]

Pulling up to the outing as Daisuke, and no, I will NOT close my eyes.

[simplepotatofarmer]

i kinda feel like in the 'from eden' au, the reveal that this rabbit person they've been sheltering would be very dramatic and 100% on dream's terms.

like, when push finally comes to shove and sam (and q) have to admit that dream escaped and it spreads and phil and ranboo are talking about being worried about what dream might do, talking about maybe helping sam out in looking for him. dream hears all this and yeah, there's some panic and trying to work out a way that he can still pretend to be this other person and be safe.

but he says 'fuck it' and cuts his hair short and binds his chest with the bandages they used to treat his wounds and goes to them like 'you can turn me in'

[thatdude-noah]

really trying to wear my transtape for as long as i can right now because i am running very low and don't really have the spare funds to buy more for a few weeks as i sort out other expenses and wait for paychecks. i love taping my chest but constantly having to buy more is such an annoying thing and is not always sustainable!

[carmineline]

just some little sketch I did of Robin and Edwin from A Marvellous Light by Freya Markse (@.fahye). Honestly one of the best series I've ever read and I'm so excited for A Power Unbound

[ino-buta]

[claudiaeparvier]

not entirely sure how it works but I’ll go ahead and headcanon that Frey and Susurrus are intertwined at the soul now. So what happens to Frey happens to him. So if she dies he goes with her.

[bijoumikhawal]

this isn't the pervasive problem people pretend it is to justify transmisogyny (especially because most of the time the person doing this is a cis man), but it is weird when you're in a "progressive" space and someone says something unironically effemiphobic because they think GNC men either don't actually exist or deserve to be insulted for doing Gender Bad which makes us inherently bad. Or both? Somehow?

[poptartmochi]

favorite thing about act I Agustín is that he's just some guy. he's just a rando with a walking staff 😭 who made him the party leader!!!

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

...

another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

[crow-of-crochet]

I just spent the last few weeks making my first leather journal from scratch. Each signature has different types of paper for drawing, writing, pressing flowers, or adding stickers and pictures. I plan on gifting this to my daughter on her 10th birthday to do with as she wishes

[nostalgia-tblr]

Okay so as it transpires I feel that despite promising to abide by the results of the poll, the winning entry "that male variant of sylvie" is just a tad too wank-baity for me to be willing to actually use it, so in the tradition of so many other tyrants I am going to re-run the voting until I get a result I am happier with. And then I shall abide by the will of the people.

[whitehartlane]

something i’ve seen frequently in football circles especially with the rise of social media (where ppl engage with the sport in absolutely bizarre ways but that’s another topic for another day) is this longstanding obsession with ‘(winning) mentality.’ how is it quantified? how do you prove its existence? how consistent must it be for a club to acquire this ‘mentality?’ it’s just bonkers to me because you’d assume that every club and every fanbase would want to win, just some a) have better resources to do so or b) some overperform/underperform as is the case with any sport which leads to drawing some kind of conclusions about this ‘mentality’ or c) some fanbases just have a better time rationalising a potential loss within the external factors which of course also leads to drawing conclusions about this ‘mentality.’ i guess my problem with it is just that it’s become such a buzzword where teams get either praised or insulted for their mentality when it’s so subjective and influenced by other factors too (doing well, doing badly, general trajectory of the club, personal satisfaction with individual achievements, media opinion, etc).

[highkey-confused]

“You know binding is bad for your health right” ok pay for my top surgery then