#and she was so condescending about it

[starchaserdreams]

The week I got into Jegulus/Starchaser an irl friend tried to shame me out of it, and I committed ten times harder and made it my entire personality for seven months to the exclusion of all else

Anyway someday I'll like wolfstar and baseball and Marvel and Broadway and Star Wars again, but today is not that day, I am too driven by spite

This is not me trying to talk anyone into that ship, this is me saying DON'T SHAME PEOPLE FOR THEIR INTERESTS. LIVE AND LET LIVE, WE CAN LIKE DIFFERENT THINGS.

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 169

this is it, the dynamic

[northlight14]

Speaking as someone who was constantly late to school, I think punishing kids/teens for being late to school is stupid. Like, I get it. When they’re older, they can’t be late to work and stuff and they need to understand that. But majority of kids/teens are getting to school via their parents or someone else driving them or hell the school bus which is also driven by an adult. So when a kid arrives late and gets punished for it, all that’s happening is a child getting punished because the adult responsible for getting them there on time wasn’t successful. That’s not teaching the kid anything, that’s just annoying. Especially when, as a kid I was always ready on time and it was my parents I was waiting on and then in detention I’d be expected to write down a “what will I do better” that didn’t apply to me because I didn’t do anything wrong

I get that sometimes it will be the kids fault but I feel like those cases are few and far between and punishing a kid for the adults in their life is just counterproductive

[arowitharrows]

just had the worst phone call with someone from our landlords property management (which is tied to the evangelical church mind you). She was going on and on about the housing shortage and that their apartments are ment for families not shared flats and that even if I and my current friend and flatmate (who has lived here for over 5 years!!) are able to get a new contract with them then my flatmate "might want to move in with her boyfriend and have children" (??? wtf) and they don't want to deal with changing tenants. And of course shared flats are "a burden" on our neighbors and they don't trust us financially.

It just makes me so unbelievably mad. This flat has never been late for a payment, there have been no complaints, we aren't loud, we don't smoke, we have no pets, we are poor fucking students but sure, "there is a housing crisis and families are on our waiting list". So fuck us, I guess.

And I think it just really hit me again that as an aro person I feel like my options will always be shared flats. Or living alone which yeah, I can't afford that (financially and mental health wise). This flat has been the best thing to ever happen to me. And I'm so angry that they might just kick us out because who the fuck cares about single people right.

[likeshipsonthesea]

i know we've gotten eddie's side of things by virtue of him being a main character and shannon being a character in his story, but please for a second can we remember that before shannon's frontal lobe was finished developing she got pregnant, got married, lost her partner to the army without warning, went through a traumatizing birth, had her son diagnosed with cp, and had to deal with all of this in an in-law environment that was Less Than Ideal without a support system of her own separate from her husband

and then her mother got CANCER and was dying alone in another state and when shannon told her husband she wanted to move closer to her to take care of her he had the audacity to ask for TIME when her mother was DYING

and THEN after she made a horribly painful choice to leave her son so she could spend her mother's last months with her she finds out her husband moved to the very city she begged for them to move to bc of a job he could literally have Anywhere

shannon made some questionable choices i'm not saying she didn't but bestie no WONDER she wanted a divorce. the man she married was a stranger and the few concrete things she knew about him by s2 were not conducive to love. eddie was and is a great father but he was genuinely a horrible husband, and the fact that shannon could recognize that and choose herself is incredible to me.

edit: there is now a follow-up post about eddie

[galactic-rhea]

do you think your empress padme (or maybe padme in general?) is the jealous type? 😈😈

Evil Padmé and Vader, jealous??? Naahhhhhhhhh. Lmao, of course they are, yes.

I mean, they both are possesive and obssesive, and only works because their kind-of-damage fits well with the other's kind-of-damage (like a puzzle!), Padmé's desire to see Palpatine dead came more from angry possesive rage than...seizing over the galaxy (how dare he! to treat her husband like that! no one should get to order him like that! except her)

But, tbh there's very little that could trigger their jealousy, like who's out there wanting to shake Vader's bones? (In universe, not here in tumblr(?))

Maybe Boba, idk, that would funny "Could you not hire THAT Bounty Hunter?"

"Why?"

"I don't like how he looks at you"

"....He...wears a helmet...?"

And Vader is a good dog, I mean, good obedient dark lord general husband, he won't kill someone that looks at Padmé unless she asks (or that someone is being actively harmful).

Empress Padmé's possesiveness shines through her orders, she likes to keep him close like her bodyguard instead out there in the galaxy and she likes that she's one of the few that sees him behind the mask, she likes to keep a minimal staff so they can be as intimate and private as they can, and that kind of thing

[transmascutena]

these lines hit different when you read utena as transmasc

[zerodaryls]

it's so funny (read: sad) that if bigoted fuckheads didn't insist i was a woman simply by virtue of my body at birth, i'd probably be chill with she/her pronouns in addition to he/they. if my mom didn't insist i was her daughter, i'd probably let her call me that, and we could still have a relationship.

i'm nonbinary and 'gendered' words are hypothetically meaningless, but because there are so many people who are more interested in telling me who i am rather than lovingly and curiously letting me express my own sense of self, those words carry trauma.

there's no reason a nonbinary person like myself can't be a son and a child and a daughter. there's no reason a nonbinary person like me can't go by he, they, and she.

'she' is not a slur. 'daughter' is not derogatory. 'beautiful' 'pretty' 'gorgeous' 'feminine' are not insults.

to the contrary, they're parts of language that express certain facets of a multi-faceted human existence, like mine.

and i have this sad, mournful feeling that if it weren't for unloving, condescending people, i'd probably be down to be called any of those things alongside my usual masculine/neutral terminology.

but i'd rather die than let anyone tell me what i have to be called.

[ladynicte]

Just finished reading the Mark of Athena and just started reading the House of Hades and man, can you imagine being Hazel during all this, especially talking about Nico.

Hazel is displaced in time, Nico is the only other person who can possibly understand that, Hazel has lived in both The Underworld and then back in the surface, Nico is the only other person who has done that, Hazel is a Child of Pluto, Nico is the only other Child of The Underworld left.

Hazel only shares being seen as a bad omen, and a bringer of bad news everywhere with Nico. They share having scary powers that seem capable of only bringing pain.

Children of Neptune are only seen as bad signs on New Rome, but they aren't there anymore.

At the end, Nico is effectively the only family that Hazel has left.

She never had a present dad of any sort, she still doesn't, she didn't have any siblings back then, and her abusive mother died together with her 70 years ago.

Nico as a half-brother is everything that Hazel has left in that department.

And then, before she even gets back to Camp Jupiter, she's already told that he has been kidnapped, and she doesn't know where, but she's too busy fighting to keep her city going, and her friends alive.

Then, when she's finally allowed to actually think about her missing brother for more than two seconds, and she lets her friends know because they are supposed to be her friends, they are all supposed to be on the same side, that her brother has been kidnapped, some of them don't even want to go save him.

And Hazel is told that her brother's life, her only family's life, just isn't worth the risk until Nico proves himself to be vital for the quest.

Whenever Hazel shows herself annoyed at how they are all treating Nico's kidnapping as something that can be dealt with later that isn't that crucial or primordial or important, that they can just come over last minute and free him.

They just sorta wave her off, and give her plain apologies. They reassure her at times for sure, but there must be something so isolating and maddening about being treated like what you are worried about isn't real.

They try to make her feel better because they care for her, but none of them are seeing what she's seeing, none of them are processing that her only family might just die in a couple of days, and her friends keep forgetting they are even supposed to be saving him.

There's nobody else in that ship who can understand what Hazel is going through.

The rest of the seven are constantly gambling with Nico's life, and saying, well hopefully we will be there in time, and if we aren't, well, don't think about it too much.

For which, Hazel has got no other choice, but to nod and go along with it, because it's either arriving just in the nick of time to save her brother, or not arriving at all.

Eventually, when she finally does see her brother again, Nico is painfully thin, with deep purple eyebags, and a faraway gaze, deadly pale, having issues walking and eating and even just talking.

Hazel's brother went through Tartarus without her even knowing and he came back with a part of him completely broken off, beyond salvaging.

And nobody else cares.

Just so lonely, to be the only person who cares. Having something so so important to you that nobody else sees in any way. So lonely being the only person defending what you care about.

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[pinkninja236]

advertising breaker whiskey to everyone I know by telling them how the wlw ship is sooooo fucked up, you should listen to it

[flowerakatsuka]

there's a fucking rude ass customer in the store, i need kurokara to comfort me—

[jewishcissiekj]

thinking about that time Asajj called Padmé pretty... I know what you are.

[breakandbuildfiction]

Guardian Spirit Meets Guardian Angels

Danny finds himself being accosted by three weird baby things with wings claiming to be part of an organization of guardian angels from Heaven called CHERUB asking for his help to go home. Apparently, they heard about him and thought that even if he was a pagan form of protector he could still plead their case to their bosses up in Heaven. Danny, having not known that Heaven was even real before they showed up, is a bit overwhelmed.

[daisywords]

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[ratbastarddotfuck]

am I wrong? genuinely, I'm asking. would it not come off extremely condescending?