#and still my fave as an adult

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

y'all ever randomly get mad all over again over some random stuff from an old fandom? anyway, fuck once upon a time for completely misunderstanding ariel's character

[americankimchi]

why cant characters be little freaks. why cant they be a lil weird. must all characters be nice and well adjusted? must they all have healthy emotional regulation and a firm handle on their mental health? can they not be a lil fucked up? a lil off putting? is it a crime for a character to be, dare i say it, annoying?

[wolfwarrior142]

The Dragon Prince season 2, episodes 5 & 6, my beloveds. Gotta be two of my absolute favorite episodes in the season.

[lichenbug]

people should gjve fluttershy more of a animal-worker. she goes to applejacks farm all the time to help with animals. she owns overalls and a cute straw hat to help feed them while shes there. she cares for wild animals almost 24/7. she owns cute hair bandanas for working constantly would wear her mane up to keep it out of her hair when she works. shes an early twenty something pony who runs an animal rehabilitation clinic alone in her own house. please

[lazycranberrydoodles]

tysm for the nya ninjago appreciation i was just looking at it and. mmmm scrumptious

ILY NYA NINJAGO!!!

[crafiet]

Everytime I try to read shoujo romance I just can't take it seriously

[craneboys]

was wondering why tf i keep getting crushes on bald middle-aged men that are sensitive and pathetic then realized it was all his fault

[oneguardian15]

anyone else ever get like emotionally dependent on a certain hyperfixation? like your main and nearly only source of joy comes from that thing and content for it and it’s like the main thing you think about or that’s in the back of your mind all day? and it’s like you’re so dependent on it, and you’re aware of it, to the point where it’s like you’re blissful but also deeply sad at the exact same time when thinking about it or consuming it? it’s like a bone deep euphoric melancholy… and it’ll consume you for a while until you slowly become less dependent on it. and it’s like you don’t get to choose when that is. it just happens. either slowly or all at once. maybe another hyperfixation takes it place or something. anyway, yeah, i get like that sometimes. never know how long it’ll last.

[gizdathemxel]

my hot take on purity culture is that nobody knows how to be normal about sex :3

(tw for sex, puritanism, pedophila (?) [not explicit tbh], and shitty discourse)

call me a puriteen n all but like has it not bothered you to ever think of why so many young people are sex negative (definitely not a culture and internet that puts us in sexual situations when we are far too young and far too uncomfortable) ? has it ever bothered u to ask why so many young people are not performing critical media analysis (definitely not a lackluster education and culture that dissuades us from thinking deeper about the media we read) ? when I was a minor I could not tell you how many people i knew (me included) struggled with porn addiction bc we were exposed to pornography when we were FAR too young. young people are taught to be ashamed of and fearful of sex while simultaneously having their sex lives being put on blast 24/7 for others to jack off to, and you expect us to NOT act out about it?

like yes, you are absolutely right that sex (esp queer sex) is a totally normal thing and that you should be allowed to write wtv you want to write and share it among other like-minded people! yes you’re absolutely right that sex is a huge part of queer history that has been historically wiped away and that needs to be preserved !! i will not argue that puritans won’t jump at any chance to censor and shame and discriminate against anyone they deem a deviant!!! that is true!!

but you cannot expect a bunch of young people, still educating themselves, still figuring out their sexual identity in a world that shames and sexualizes them, still figuring out how to truly interact w media to have already know that. you don’t have to educate them but like there’s no need to be like “erm…minors amirite 😒” when a block will suffice

it’s so ridiculously revisionist to act like the internet is ‘sanitized’ or is perfectly filtered out so that minors stay in minor spaces and adults stay in adult spaces. there are people posting porn on tiktok, on twitter, on tumblr, on every fucking platform one can think of (including youtube). it is truly not that hard to encounter adult material even when you’re a minor. people will gladly send you porn or similarly graphic stuff even if ur a minor. you literally couldn’t have looked up mlp on GOOGLE back in the late 2000s/2010s and not be shown mlp porn. there’s an infamous porn video of mlaatr where the main (16yo) character gets raped by rock creatures, and it looks JUST like the show’s art style. so it’s very likely that there’s a generation of people whose very 1st sexual exposure was watching their fave characters be placed in inappropriate sexual content when they were children. so yay learning about sex thru bastardization!!

and combine that with young people who have never actually been taught how to explore their sexuality and instead learned “if ur even horny for a minute you will go to hell and die” ur going to get ill-adjusted young people who do not know wtf theyre doing. u are going to get people who are going to bump their heads a fucking lot.

ill be honest and admit that when I was a kid I was definitely within the puriteen camp bc gw!! I was a queer kid who just started grasping their sexuality in the middle of the pandemic and all I had was unrestricted access to the internet, that gave everything to me at 110%

I am not asking that every space be wiped squeaky clean just in case that a minor might be present, but I am asking to extend a little grace. Drop educational sources a so called puriteen should refer to!! Show how that kind of puritanical thinking can do actual harm to marginalized people!! Don’t get in internet spays w kids!! Just block and move on!!

(also i will forever be giggling at that one comic abt a minor entering an “adult” space and then getting mad at the adults there and calling them pedos just for the ‘adult’ space the op was talking about to be sophia the 1st nsfw fanfic. i literally cant)

[potential-fate]

The restaurant that Abe had picked out was fancier than Callum had expected. He tried not to feel completely out of place, but it was obvious that Abe fit in far better than he did. Abe hadn’t told him that there was a dress code, but he still felt under dressed. Abe, of course, naturally wore something akin to work casual in most situations. 

There were other people who were dressed casually in the room, which was the only thing that kept Callum from worrying. He tried to put aside his concerns, since clearly Abe wasn’t worried. 

“I’m glad you actually managed to get some time off.” he said instead, “I’m sure you’re… tired.” 

Abe chewed on his lip, “I know I’ve been… busy.” 

Callum said nothing for a moment,”It’s… okay.”  Callum didn’t add that it’d been almost a month since they’d spent any time together, minus the random takeout shared in the evening. He wasn’t sure okay was the right word, but it wasn’t worth it to be petty right now.

[todayisafridaynight]

harvard a lame school i bet aoki never got woken up at 11PM because his roommates were blasting music cause everyone a square there

[mrspockomakeitso]

I'm rewatching attack of the clones and i havent seen it properly, start to finish, since i was a kid so i am having Thoughts and Opinions that are Very Different from when i was a child.

[freebooter4ever]

now that i am haymitch and effie's age it makes the whole movie more painful. like when i was younger i identified more with katniss in a protagnist way - of course she is gonna go out an kick ass. but looking at it through haymitch's eyes? like he just put a kid on a helicopter to go die??? ;_; no wonder he was trying to drink himself to death

[thatrandombystander]

Just got back from watching a production of Les Mis and yeah man to love another person really is to see the face of God 😭😭😭

[oflights]

for ao3 wrapped: 12, 18 and 28 - don’t feel pressured to answer all three if you don’t want to :)

hi!! thanks!

12. How many WIPs do you have in your docs for next year?

hmm. if we go by a strict definition of WIP, then i guess it's just one, because i don't think i'll finish star splitter up by january (even though i want to!!) i (usually) only write one fic at a time, so i don't typically have a bunch of WIPs going!

as for what's on deck, ideas-wise, i have a few! there's a cute mpreg one i want to do (sort of to make up for the fact that along each garden wall was more about getting pregnant than being pregnant lol), plus the gilmore girls AU, and i think i'm going to do kinkuary in february! i have this idea where, as a side effect of a potion he has to take, harry can hear people's loudest thoughts unless they're actively occluding them. he starts to hang with draco, who occludes all the time...except for his very loud, very kinky thoughts about harry. 😈

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

okay, i feel like the answer to this is always going to be hermione lol. i really struggle with her! i chafe a bit against the most common characterizations of her in fandom, so i'm always trying to do something different, but i don't always feel like i have a handle on that.

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

hmm i won't count Close Behind because i technically wrote that in 2022, just finished posting in 2023. so i think i'll call it a tie between find a new place to be from and The Star Splitter. 😊

send me AO3 wrapped asks!