#and it is a fucking BLIGHT on humanity

[crimeronan]

the other thing about luz taking a break from ruling the kingdom is that raine CAN handle the administrative stuff (and is much more politically aligned with luz than anyone else in government), but the person who makes the MOST sense to actually interface with the public is...... lilith. lilith who is largely lost without explicit direction but also really Really wants to do a good job and prove herself

please help me imagine what amity's day-to-day is like. during this time.

[iamchaos1234]

Happy Trans day of visibility! Here are some TOH pfps I made for yall! Enjoy!

⬇️ a message from Viney to all you transphobes

[attractthecrows]

reposting young adult Nessie cuz shes so fucking cute im gonna lose it

[funnyscienceman]

It's singed hours rn. Anytime rito does any arcane promo my brain immediately turns to singed mode. He is all i will think abt for the next twenty-four hours. Ill be doing hw and still be thinking abt singed laughing like a fucking loon to himself while running around gassing enemies and teammates on the rift. I fuckin need singed in lor. I only look forward to arcane s2 solely for more singed material. He's so fuckin great.

[trevorendeavors]

December 6, 2022. To all those on A03 who’ve waited patiently for chapter 4, I do apologize for the wait. It’s still in production, but while y’all waiting, have this and a preview of Hexsquad Among Humans: Perils of a Realm Beyond the Boiling Isles | Chapter 4: The Dinner:

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“Luz showed me her ancient human archive of knowledge, the wiki! I memorized the passage on the creation of apple juice,” Gus bragged, as if it were the words of some ancient scroll he’d recited and not the encyclopedia that every once in a while was tweaked to say the moon was in fact made of cheese. Library databases were more reliable sources of information, but Luz could barely figure out how to navigate those and so she hadn’t introduced him to them yet. She’d promised herself she’d get around to showing him those when she was competent enough not to embarrass herself in front of him. That day never came, and so he was stuck with wikis that were only surface level.

“Yeaaah,” Vee scratched behind her head. “You always gotta double check what you get from there. Anyone can edit that to say whatever they want.”

“…oh.”

“If you want more reliable info, the local library’s a pretty good source.”

“You have those here?” Amity perked up, “That’s right… the human bookworms!” She turned to Luz. “Maybe sometime we can go see them, right?” Hearing her genuinely a little enthusiastic was so sweet. Titan, did Luz wish it was under any other circumstances than the ones they just came from that they ended up in the human realm. Maybe then they could’ve had that mundane slice-of-life date she promised and not have the destruction of the isles on their mind.

<i>Still, a trip to hit the books might be in order. </i>

History books and old spell books were likely the best place to search for leads on getting back to the isles. Even if the information was bound to be vastly inaccurate. All the sources Luz had ever had on magic before - whether from ancient myths, fantasy books, or online forums - had been wrong to a degree. Not even the databases were guaranteed to have reliable information. How could they when all humans had to go off of were leaks from another world and not firsthand experience? Then again, maybe humans <i>had</i> traveled there and back again but to different regions. <i>Or maybe even different titans.</i> It wasn’t impossible, as long as Titan blood leaked into the right puddles of water at the right location. Even then, narratives weren’t guaranteed to be accurate. Philip was - <i>once was</i> - living proof that humans tended to distort the truth of magic intentionally. Finding a way back was going to be like finding a needle in a mountain of unreliably documented haystacks.

“Luz?”

A gentle squeeze of her arm brought her back to reality. It occurred to her she hadn’t replied verbally or via text to her girlfriend’s suggestion. Without thinking she mumbled, “Uh, sure. Yeah.”

Amity frowned.

— END OF PREVIEW

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[onemillionfurries]

I think everyone needs to make a "peace and love on planet earth" tag for their blog. A tag where videos, images, memes, and stories can be compiled of humanity showing kindness, empathy, joy, beauty, and love. A respite from the horrors that are shoved in our faces on a daily basis. A reminder that no matter what, we are all human, we are all one, and that we are all capable of being kind to each other and bringing beauty to this world.

[dirt-str1der]

Thinking of how stupid 2bjeb is again… at this late hour…

[halfpricedpages]

idk just thinking about how amity’s mom wasn’t upset that she was dating a girl but just upset that she was dating luz like yes amity my beloved daughter i’m not homophobic i’m just a piece of shit

[tanis-zed]

I’ve said it often, and I’ll say it again, cis white gay men are, first and foremost, cis white men.

I love all the dunking on James Somerton but I don’t think we’ve focused enough on all his lesbophobic rhetoric because the things he says are genuinely so astoundingly ahistorical and insensitive and it infuriates me that he was allowed to get away with it so long.

He literally said lesbians didn’t face police violence on the same scale as gay men when that’s just demonstrably untrue. Lesbians, ESPECIALLY butch, GNC, and trans lesbians, faced MASSIVE amounts of police violence AND STILL DO and if he gave a single shit about like. Women as people. Or even just LGBT history in general as he so proclaims to care about, he would know that. I’m going to start beating people to death with copies of Stone Butch Blues until they fucking listen

And I’d really love to know which fucking planet he lives on where lesbians apparently have all this great representation, and where we as lesbians are allowed to write our own stories, because I’m really not seeing that pretty much anywhere in mainstream media. I’m still seeing lesbians portrayed in stereotypical or fetishistic ways, and that’s when I see us portrayed at all. And yes cartoons are great and fine but there is so painfully little lesbian representation written by lesbians geared primarily towards adults.

But at this point, the wider community’s general lack of a reaction to lesbophobia in their ranks disappoints but doesn’t surprise me. It’s sad and somewhat astonishing that he’s escaped accountability for his lesbophobic comments up to this point, but again, not surprising. We need to stop letting our community, especially people like James Somerton who get held up as voices for the community, get away with lesbophobia.

[ozzgin]

Yandere! House Monster x Reader

Listen, I woke up in cold sweat at 4am with a vision: you and your stereotypically unavailable gamer boyfriend have moved into a new house. You find out very soon it's not as empty as you had assumed, but your worries fall on deaf ears. The tentacle monster lurking in dark corners just wants to make sure you're not lonely.

[Second Part]

Content: gender neutral reader, monster romance (mildly NSFW)

You didn't notice anything strange at first. Maybe it was considering its prey. You'd found a cheap, old house available for rent, and your boyfriend couldn't refuse the extra space for his mancave.

Oh, you poor thing. It watched your lonely evenings, your empty bed at night, your futile attempts to spend more time with your beloved partner. It had originally planned to devour your souls and await the next foolish mortals to enter its realm, but seeing your pitiful state prompted a change of heart. Metaphorical heart, of course.

It started gradually: testing the waters, or what you'd call a courting attempt. Doors opening by themselves, disembodied eyes lovingly gazing at you from the nearby walls. Dark tendrils making their way out of the shadows, just to announce its presence.

"I think this place might be cursed", you told your boyfriend one evening. "I've been stalked by amorphous silhouettes of blight and terror, and they whisper ancient blasphemies to me at night." He let out a worried shout and slapped the desk. "That's cool, babe. I'm kind of losing right now, though, so perhaps give me a minute?"

One night you were awakened from your slumber by a warm touch sliding across your body. You smiled into your pillow as the cheeky hands made their way down, fondling your curves and hungrily searching for your sensitive areas. You let out a soft moan, enjoying the moment, until you heard your boyfriend yell from the other room. Your eyes shot open.

The hands lewdly groping your privates were, in fact, tentacles. Your first reaction was to gasp, but you were quickly silenced by another slippery appendage pressing against your lips. Shh, shh. Allow the creature to do its thing, dear. Surely enough, within minutes you were a drooling mess, holding onto the sheets for dear life.

"You've been in a good mood lately", you boyfriend remarks, idly scrolling on his phone and crunching on his breakfast cereal. You ponder if you should tell him you've been fucked relentlessly by a monstrous creature inhabiting your new home. You glance at the counter and smirk, remembering how you just had to wipe your wet mess from it a few hours ago. "Keep it that way, hun, I could get used to not being pestered every hour", the man jokes with a laugh.

Does it count as cheating if your affair partner isn't really human? Although, you have to wonder if you're still dating to begin with. From the corner of your eye, you can discern faint movement above the young man, a shadow looming menacingly. The eldritch monster would not hesitate to tear your poor boyfriend apart if he tried to mess with its belonging.

[pinkrangerv]

bro that is clearly XP not 95

...*twitch*

XP SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN OF. THE NAME OF THE ANCIENT CURSE SHALL NOT BE INVOKED. WE MUST PURGE IT FROM OUR MEMORIES.

[cryptidcrone]

i was afforded a damn good education through my local public school, with a shitton of afterschool programs to boot

I learned to love archery and history and science and poetry, i learned how to sew a button and darn a sock and take core samples of trees and how to use a microscope and a bow and gun, how to plan a budget and god help me how to balance a checkbook, learned basic recipes that I still use as a whole ass woman of 31

when I was a minor with paternal relatives who were out to enable my abuser, the teachers and administrators of my school formed a phalanx to help my mother protect me until I came of age (and even when I was small and we hadn’t left yet, school was a welcome break from abuse and gave me the gift of reading)

when I was older and participated in local summer camps as a counselor, we took the kids into the woods and taught them about the animals and plants and my boss allowed in kids who technically were too old to be allowed anymore to stay on because their families were abusive shit stains

this is the village that raises a child, parents and grandparents and aunties and teachers and school cooks and neighbors, and friends, and librarians and the system that binds us all

tl;dr : public schools are as vital as air, and if you have a problem with them you have a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate!

extremely fucking weird to have to convince leftists that fighting for a better public education system & better wages for teachers is not, like, the Lame Establishment Dem take or whatever.

It is not Cool and Radical to advocate for the dissolution of the entire public education system in favor of Everyone Doing Their Own Thing. what you're describing is libertarianism, and a system that directly and dramatically benefits fascist right-wingers and child abusers.

the community-centered child rearing yall love to talk about exists. it desperately needs to be improved, but the bones are here, and they're already doing a lot of legwork in the fight against aggressive nuclear family isolation.

it's called public school, you fucking dweeb.

[elliscousland]

Something Something ellis making Horrific Decisions during the blight but not seeing himself as the bad guy until after the fact Something Something

[chameleonsallinvermillion]

Guards! Guards! was not the first Discworld book I read but it is the one that punched my angsty, edgy thirteen-year-old self in the face. I have never had a book hit me like that since. Nothing has ever picked me up by the scruff of the neck and shown me my own face in the mirror that way.

I was angsting around, all "the world is terrible" and "people are evil" and "humans are a blight upon the earth" and "everyone is stupid" and Vimes showed up and said, "Yeah, and?"

So what? So they're stupid and petty - save them anyway. So they're selfish - save them anyway. So it's all fucked and there's never going to be a happy ending - save them anyway. Do it anyway. You don't get to opt out of caring just because they're grubby and ignorant and reactionary and petty because so are you and that's all we've got.

No other book has ever changed my worldview in one blow before or since. I reckon that's something that can only happen to you when you're a teenager anyway. But I've never quite gotten over it.

[dukeofriven]

Fifty years from now, in the desiccated wasteland of our world, when my mutant semi-human grandchildren ask me why my generation didn't do more to save the planet I'm going to have to explain that the people with genuine influence used their powers to get the youth in major urban areas to riot over potentially winning something called a 'gaming chair.' "Yeah, Kayleighhhhghie, we could have seized the means of production, or storm the barricades of the rich and powerful and brought them to justice, or even just stood arm and arm and used the mass of our unity to break the power of the state. But instead we littered a lot and tried to earn a wheeled seat with padding for extra-comfortable sedentariness."

[candycoatedrox]

drawing from all the way back in february of my splatoon oc Aukai as Amity Blight from TOH!! I was gonna do this with all my ocs but ahhh. the ADHD kicked in. oops. (aukai uses they/he prns!!)

plus doodle page of V (it/its) as Hunter... it looks like such a wet cat here. it was born in a wet cardboard box all alone. doofus